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Garden Activities

Pruning fruit trees - but staying inside while the white stuff comes down!

Taking a break over the holidays!

Raking up leaves around the trees - no use letting them go to waste on the grass!

Planting a few extra garlic cloves in pots. They make nice gifts!

What’s Happenin’ in the Kitchen?

Kale, kale, and more kale! Combined with garlic, of course! With chicken, cauliflower, over pasta, in stir-fries…you name it. Kale rules!

Homemade bone-broth soup with ham, beans, carrots, onions, kale - a chilly day - perfect for hot soup!

More dried apples & gingerbread w/molasses & fresh chopped ginger - yum!

Pumpkin custard with whipped raw cream…yum! Thank you Dungeness Valley Creamery!

Homegrown potato-leek soup w/shallots :P I Love soup weather!

MORE dog biscuits! "Woof!"

Drying apples

What I’m Reading

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Weather – What’s Going On Out There?

Snow is almost gone - the wind and rain have chased it out of here! Hold on to your hats! Surf is UP. Most definitely.

Herbs: Culinary, Medicinal, and Dye Plants

At one time, we were growing over 100 varieties of herbs. I have had to scale back, which has been difficult in light of all the wonderful and unusual herbs that can grow in our climate; however, by reducing the quantities, we have increased the quality – or at least, I’d like to think so.

In reality, we don’t grow a lot of any one thing except the garlic – and right now, the garlic looks great, but the rest of the garden is full of weeds! I am trying to get back on top of things after letting “nature take its course” the last couple of years. I recognize control is, after all, a mere illusion!

So here’s the deal: I know these herbs are out there. There are many many more that I have grown at one time and no longer do so. So many others I have added. It changes every year. My garden is always full of surprises. So contact me for availability – I am VERY WILLING to share, sell, or trade whatever we find!

I do not mind the chaos. In fact, I rather enjoy it.

If there is something you would like, contact me.

As I develop this website, I’ll post updates on what is available. But time on the website is time away from weeding, so I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

For now, here is a partial list of what we have (I must have forgotten something!):

CULINARY PLANTS & TEAS

  • Basils – a bunch of varieties!
  • Bergamot
  • Borage
  • Burnet
  • Cardoon
  • Catnip
  • Chervil
  • Chives
  • Cilantro
  • Dill
  • Fennel, Bronze & wild (grrr!)
  • Hyssop
  • Lemon Balm
  • Lovage
  • Marjoram
  • Mints (several varieties)
  • Mustard, Brown
  • Nasturtium
  • Oregano
  • Parsley
  • Rosemary
  • Sage
  • Savory
  • Sorrel, French
  • Thyme (several varieties)
  • Verbena

MEDICINAL PLANTS

  • Angelica
  • Ashwaganda
  • Calendula
  • Chamomile
  • Chaste Tree (Vitex)
  • Clover, Red
  • Dandelions (lots of them!)
  • Echinacea
  • Elderberry
  • Elecampagne
  • Eucalyptus
  • Feverfew
  • Ginko
  • Lady’s Mantle
  • Lamb’s Ears (Woolly Betony)
  • Lavender
  • Marshmallow
  • Motherwort
  • Mugwort
  • Pennyroyal
  • Pyrethrum
  • Rue
  • Santolina
  • Skullcap
  • Soapwort
  • St.John’s Wort
  • Stinging Nettle
  • Valerian
  • Verbain
  • Violet
  • Vitex
  • Wormwood

DYE PLANTS

  • Agrimony
  • Amaranth (Hopi Red Dye)
  • Bugloss
  • Calendula
  • Calliopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria)
  • Golden Marguerite
  • Goldenrod
  • Gypsywort
  • Hollyhock
  • Lady’s Bedstraw
  • Madder
  • Weld
  • Woad
  • Woodruff, Dyer’s