Haphazard Homestead

Our garden is finally beginning to look like a garden.  That's great, in general, but the late growth is presenting a few problems....

I'm a week late with this post, but April was a whirlwind for me, and I'm just now catching up. I set some goals at the beginning ...

Where does the time go?  The days are just flying by lately and so much is happening around here. The gardening is beginning to show signs...

Gardening has begun at Haphazard Homestead! I now have a new printer and have begun using the garden planner I purchased earlier this year...

Since Shane will be home and our weekend will begin tomorrow, and since the last day of February is today, I decided to write my Friday post...

Knowing how much to plant each year is the hardest step in garden planning, I think.  As far as I can tell, no matter how I choose to cal...

I've mentioned before that I bought a neat-o perpetual garden planner download from Northwest Edible Life , and have all intentions ...

I set some goals at the beginning of the year, so I thought I'd give a quick monthly update on my progress. Reading:  Goal - 18 Boo...

Most stuffed squash recipes include rice in the mixture, but I wanted to use a box of stuffing that was in the cabinet, so I came up with th...

Garden season isn't quite over yet.  This is what we picked from our garden last night.  Two big bowls of green beans (we covered them...

Some of last year's tomatoes; taken October 2011. A couple dozen of these look ready to move to the kitchen. Our first frost was...

We had our first frosty nights last weekend, but knew about it ahead of time and picked all of our tomatoes, both red and green. Many o...

It's been quite a while since I posted an update on skinny ol' Bob, the stray cat who adopted us in July.  It's hard to get a g...

Shane and I enjoyed a weekend getaway in the camper. I'll write more about that later this week.   Kat has a quick back-to-school nig...

Just a quick fly-by to say I might be scarce this week. Kat has been under the weather since Saturday night, I have tomatoes and other goo...

We harvested about 20 pounds of potatoes this year.  That's not a great yield, but it was better than any previous year, so we were ha...

If stored properly, heads of garlic can last a good, long time, possibly from one season to the next.  This is the situation we found oursel...

We're doing what we can to keep things alive around here, and that includes both cats and plants.  We water our gardens every other day....