Here on the homestead, we sun ourselves when we can, but it’s less sunbathing than sun showering. We don’t “lay out” to get a tan, but we do go out and sit or stand in the sun when it reaches the property in the winter months, to produce a little vitamin D, and a sense of wellbeing.
Aly catching a "sun shower" on the Power Point at the Winter Solstice.
“The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.”
Last winter I ran across a blog site called Cold Climate Gardening by Kathy Purdy. She had an article that popped up when I Googled “Minimum/Maximum Thermometers,” a necessity for my greenhouse. There are many topics on her site that sparked my interest.
One is: “Write Your Garden’s Mission Statement.” (She got the idea from Helen Yoest at Gardening With Confidence.) At first I thought this was a bit pretentious, but then I saw how it could simplify the way you think and plan your garden. Continue reading
