Should you experience, eat cicadas? It is music to the ears to hear them. Many, many years ago, my little girl dug up a small raspberry plant from a far part of the yard--she replanted it on the front corner of the house. Being away for so many years during any berry season, I come back to find raspberries galore; so many plants multiplied around the side and the … [Read more...]
A SKIRT GARDEN & FLOWERFLY Slideshow
A SKIRT GARDEN & FLOWERFLY Slideshow … [Read more...]
Gathering Flower Seeds
I like to pick seeds out of the shells since Summer's over. And I like to collect seeds to plant next Spring. I'm gathering flower seeds from purple Morning Glories. I pinch the shells and catch them in a jar. The shell looks like a moth. And this looks like a face. There are two seeds that look like coffee beans in a cup. Some seeds … [Read more...]
Summer Days
It's a 'skirt garden' that's gone to weeds since I've been away quite a bit this summer being busy like a bee--but!--I managed to come home and find a nice surprise: My garden was tending to itself. It seemed that way because among the tall grass, in and around the thick shrubs, tip-toeing through prickly weeds, beauty abounded with loads of flowers and greenery that was … [Read more...]
Fruitful Summer
The summer is the start of a fruitful summer in a number of ways. Blessings abound. These raspberry plants have thistles that can prick the skin when reaching inward to pick ripe berries. More of the ripe ones are within the plants, in the shaded areas, than the berries that are exposed to the sun. The unripe raspberries have the resemblance of fuzz or a hairy look to … [Read more...]
Spring Awakening
It's a spring awakening--and maybe to many things. It's a time to refresh and renew. … [Read more...]
Rose-Colored Glasses (27)
Rose-Colored Glasses (27), exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen I've waited five years for this lilac bush to bloom. Not every lilac bush does bloom--ever--whether it is fiction or fact. … [Read more...]
Style
Style, by Taylor Swift, Skirt Radio-skirtinthekitchen.com … [Read more...]
Christmas Kraut
exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen I don't want it to be Christmas-not yet-but I have to ferment cabbage for Christmas kraut if I want to cook with it by then. This is the easy method even though I'm jazzing it up with spices and other fruit to give it the Christmas swag that I like. … [Read more...]
Heel Planting for Winter
Skirt in the Kitchen When you don't have time to get everything in the ground before the first frost, or a hard frost at that, try heel planting for winter. … [Read more...]