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Author Archives: Lanny

About Lanny

In Him we live and move and have our being. And we do so in the beautiful land tucked between Mount Rainier and the Puget Sound.

You’ve Seen Hints, Now It’s True

You’ve seen this on the side board, and saw hints on FB.  You may have known it’s what we’ve been working towards, you may remember the side board has been saying we were working on something. Well now we are ready to go.  The Harvest Baskets of VF&G are gonna roll out the first week … Continue reading »

Categories: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

My “Earthday” Post

First let me say, that we believe that everyday is the Lord’s, every breath, every movement, every thought ought to be taken captive unto our Lord Jesus Christ. But someone determined that we ought to be calling certain days belonging to certain celebrations.  But no matter who or what we say we celebrate, whether it … Continue reading »

Categories: God the Father Son and Holy Spirit, Spiritual Disciplines, Vicktory Farm and Gardens, Working With Animals | 3 Comments

Soil Test #1

You don’t need to call an expert out to your garden in order to grow great stuff to eat and look at.  You become the expert (former drip under pressure) there are tons and tons (literally by weight) of books out there in libraries and book stores and pamphlets in garden shops to help you … Continue reading »

Categories: Garden Methods, Soil Tests | 2 Comments

VF&G’s Tomato Plants for Sale

Yep that’s what happens when you plant twice as many seeds as you need plants, you end up with plants for sale. Unlike some of the other things that I start from seed, like flowers, tomatoes need good adoptive parents. Extra flowers I can just stick out any where on the farm and just let … Continue reading »

Categories: Tomatoes | 1 Comment

Makin’ Room and Changing Places

Crowded The Hippy Hot Hut is crowded!  Packed full and I haven’t even dented what I was supposed to have in starts this year. The bench is full, and so is the north wall shelves, hanging bar and floor. The bench is mostly propagation heat mat covered and in direct sunlight.  It is the main … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Greenhouse, Peppers, Propagation, Technology, Tomatoes | 3 Comments

Can You Leave It?

Are you more entranced with your life and all the good things in it or the Master of the Banquet? How often is it that we are far more concerned with the gifts rather than the Gifter? A farm that we patiently waited to call our own, the animals that we breed and birth and … Continue reading »

Categories: Building A Future, God the Father Son and Holy Spirit, Heaven | 6 Comments

In and Out of Trouble Again

Vicktory Farm & Gardens’ CFO said that I had better get to posting if I want to see any more funds come my way for my pet projects. And he wanted the post to be about him.  So here you have it, the latest Dirt miracle. How We Form A Garden Here at VF&G it … Continue reading »

Categories: Bed Making, Dirt, Tomatoes | 5 Comments

How Shocking!

Not really, truth be, the opposite of shocking. It is vacation time from teaching for Dirt, that means picking up where he left off on big projects.  On that list, the electricity in the Hippy Hot House was at the top.  Up until now my electricity has been delivered via drop cords, several.  Not very … Continue reading »

Categories: Dirt, Greenhouse | 8 Comments

The View from My Armchair

It’s that time of year again! This is the time of the year when the soil is either too soggy or frozen, right now it is too soggy, to be doing much in the garden. The drainage ditches are all tidied up and doing their job, it just happens to be raining constantly. There is … Continue reading »

Categories: Catalogs & Seed Houses, Christmas, Flowers, Garden Methods, Hoop Houses, Propagation, Thanksgiving | 6 Comments

We Interrupt Our Regularly Cheduled Program…

When you’re mi–ing two out of 100 of -omething  you might not mi– the two thing-.  -ut if they are certain  -omething, well then, you really mi– them.  I am trying very hard to patiently wait for my new key -oard to arrive.   -ut it i- getting very hard to –e -uper patient. Thi-  i-n’t … Continue reading »

Categories: Blogging, Dirt, Vicktory Farm and Gardens | 9 Comments