Quote of the Day: Marcel Proust
The voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty)
Here are a few shots of flowers from my Maine garden that I took this past week.
The amazing thing is that none of the flowers in my new garden are the same as the flowers in my old garden back in Ohio.
What new and exciting things are you seeing in your garden this week?
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Road Trip
Today, Mr Chiots and I are driving from Maine to Ohio once again.
We have some work to do in Ohio that was booked long before we decided to move. It’s not bad though, because we have Dailon taking care of the place in Maine and we get to spend time in Ohio with my mom and our nieces & nephew.
Needless today, it’s still been a busy week trying to get things in Maine ready to go and buttoned up.
Any road trips in your future?
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Quote of the Day: Rainy Days
“God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done.” – author unkown
So very true, yesterday morning I swept and cleaned and polished and mopped but that wasn’t enough.
I also baked eight sourdough boules and make a few pounds of butter. But then the sun came out again and back out into the garden I went and the dishes remained unwashed…
Do you ever put off inside chores until a rainy day so you can spend all the nice days in the garden?
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Friday Favorite: These Piggies
I must say, we’ve only had these piggies for a month and they’ve quickly become our favorite livestock. They’re very personable and happen to be wonderful garden companions. Since they’re fenced in back by the main garden, they come out and root and oink while I’m back there working. They even come running when they see me (probably because I often have a treat in hand).
The most beneficial part of these little porkers is that they’re fabulous garbage disposals. We had a heat wave at the end of may, temperature were up around 90 for a few days. As a result, my pak choi bolted.
What used to be a sad thing in the garden is now almost a cause for celebration as I know the pigs will happily munch it down and turn it into delicious bacon and ham. Early next week all the early spring spinach will be ripped out and fed to the pigs to make way for peppers and tomatoes.
We’ll definitely have pigs at Chiot’s Run from here on out. I’m already researching the kinds we want to try next. We want Guinea hogs for sure and I’d love to try Tamworth pigs as well. Next week we’ll be moving them into a wooded area to see how they do in that type of setting, should be interesting for sure!
Have you lost any vegetables because of the weather?
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Quote of the Day: Joan Dye Gussow
Vegetable gardens are much more important that houses in the overall scheme of things. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization. Houses come and go, but soil must be cherished if food is to be grown for us to eat.
Joan Dye Gussow from This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader
This is certainly the case here, we are putting off any work on the house and investing our time heavily in the garden, particularly the edible spaces. We know that time invested now will pay of tenfold in the future, especially when it comes to investing in our soil.
I’m already harvesting bountiful salads, both for me and the neighbors. On Friday I traded a big bowl of lettuce for some of my neighbor’s rhubarb. A wonderful trade indeed. I do have rhubarb plants to put in the ground here, but it will be a few years before I’ll be making any pies from them.
How important is your vegetable garden to you?
