Freedom Gardening and Foraging

French Breakfast Radish

First, if I start complaining too much about my garden later in the season, someone virtually smack me. Because really, not even a week into May and I'm pulling up radishes, harvesting collards and Swiss Chard and I've got a whole bunch of other greens that are looking...See more

Plant Haul

This is most of the plants I bought. Most are shade plants. Weirdly, my full shade garden is probably the one I'm most proud of, because, let's be honest, a full shade garden is challenging. The rarest plants I purchased was a double bloodroot and the Japanese jack in the ...See more

The Garden Menace

Not the best picture but there is my garden menace, Bertha. Consumer of pea shoots and seeds, creator of random tree sprout stashes, and grand hole digger extraordinaire.

Collards

The collards I planted last autumn are mostly bolting, so I finally went and picked most of the larger leaves off the one plant for dinner last night. Been harvesting chives from the garden, but it was the first real meal from the garden for 2026.

April Showers Current state of my garden.

Backyard Bee Life

Bee on the Basil flowers.

April Blooms - Frost Warning

It was unseasonably hot the past week, and now there is a cold front moving with frost warnings and the possibility of snow. So, I'll be dragging a bunch of plants in tonight. April is being her unpredictable self.

Tomatoes Getting Wild. These are Tiny Tim's and Black Cherries.