Garden Expansion
Uhl
Jun 2, 2009
I didn’t get to write about it this past weekend because I was too busy riding, but last week we made some improvements to our
garden
Hail Storm
Uhl
Apr 28, 2009
Good thing I rode indoors this morning. This afternoon we had a nice thunderstorm roll through with pounding rain and hail! It left a nice
Bees are Buzzing
Uhl
Apr 12, 2008
It finally feels like spring outside and the bees are out in full force. Seems like the snow the other day didn’t affect our apricot
Tree Pruning
Uhl
Mar 8, 2008
Each year pruning our seven fruit trees becomes a progressively larger task. It’s amazing how they grow in just one year! There’s a whole art
Summer Garden
Uhl
Jun 26, 2007
With recent the summer weather, our garden has been growing fast. The tomato plants are doing really well, even the ones I tried to salvage
Name that Tree Disease
Uhl
May 26, 2007
Maybe I can harness the power of the web here. Since Typepad does a good job of indexing posts so they show up high in
Whoops!
Uhl
May 5, 2007
So much for planting tomatoes early!? The other night we had a frost and most of our tomato plants, look like toast…well, actually they look
Gardening
Uhl
Apr 28, 2007
With the nice weather and no race scheduled for today Heather and I did some gardening. We went shopping and got everything we needed then
Spring
Uhl
Mar 23, 2007
Spring is officially here and the fruit trees are starting to show it. Our apricot and Pluot trees are both blooming, while the rest are
Fruit Tree Pruning
Uhl
Feb 27, 2007
We have seven fruit trees in our backyard that we planted a few years ago. Since we got them when they were fairly small they
Fruit Harvest
Uhl
Aug 23, 2006
Between the tomato plants and the fruit trees both being in season right now, we came back from our weekend trip to a lot of
Mmmm…Pluots
Uhl
Aug 8, 2006
What’s a pluot? It’s a cross between an apricot and a plum. We were first introduced to them when we were living in Utah. They’ve
Tomatoes
Uhl
Jul 18, 2006
Yesterday was a long travel day. Heather and I were flying standby and I guess there was an America West flight that was canceled which
Watch the Garden Grow
Uhl
Jun 8, 2006
More gardening work today. I weeded the garden and tree beds. Then I covered all the tree beds with the leftover weed barrier from last
Fruits and Veggies
Uhl
May 24, 2006
I finally got the garden pretty much done for now. I spent a good amount of time last week on it, tilling the soil, weeding
VO2’s and Veggies
Uhl
May 16, 2006
I spent more time today in the garden. I went and bought a bunch of tomato plants and a strawberry plant and spent most of
Payette Loop
Uhl
May 9, 2006
I wasn’t too tired on Monday after Treasure Valley but I still took an easy bike day. I did spend a lot of time working
Tree Pruning
Uhl
Feb 13, 2006
Eagle, ID — Time for the yearly fruit tree pruning. It’s amazing how much our seven fruit trees grow during the season. We learned that you
Giant Zucchini
Uhl
Aug 23, 2005
With Heather so busy with her new job with New York Life Insurance Company, I’ve been tending the garden. I didn’t realize how fast zucchini
Ladybugs are Back
Uhl
May 16, 2005
Last year we unleashed 1000 ladybugs to make sure our fruit trees didn’t have an aphid problem. They seemed to work for a little while