Around now is the time to plant your cool weather veggies in Idaho/Pacific Northwest. If you haven’t already been out there (and as long as your soil isn’t frozen or waterlogged), it is a great time to plant peas, lettuces, swiss chard, bok choy, spinach, beets, carrots, onions…anything that is considered a cool weather crop. … Read More Time to Get Planting!
It’s pretty sad when you are so distracted that you forgot you put your 5 year old in the time out corner (for what was supposed to be about a three minute time out) about six minutes ago. “Mom? Can I get out of timeout?” Smiles calls from the corner. “Oh – are you still… Read More Where Did My Brain Go???
Well, I did it. Today. I went out and got some baby chicks. I got four. One Golden Sex Link, one Black Sex Link and two Ameraucanas. I knew that I wanted the Ameraucanas and I originally wanted a Red Sex Link. My poor hubby. While I was out today I called the store to… Read More The Chicken Mama
On February 4, I planted several “test” seeds to start and see which does the best. I planted: 1. Winter sowing method in regular organic potting soil (tomatoes and artichokes) 2. Grow light in seed start mix (tomatoes and artichokes) 3. Grow light in regular organic potting soil (artichoke) *I didn’t take specific pictures of… Read More The Spring Seedlings and Experiments
The cold weather continues, but the weather man has promised us that it might get up to freezing later this week! Could happen. We might actually hit 32 degrees!!! So today I combated the cold and snow with homemade bread and ham and bean soup. I have a bunch of great bread recipes,… Read More Brrrr…..Homemade Bread and Soup to Warm Us Up
This is not a picture of snow. That is just the frost that accumulated on our trees a few days ago. Check it out on my raspberry bushes… Beautiful yes. Cold, but beautiful. So we have been inside a few days. And warming up with felt. Felt and rice. And also making some cute felt… Read More Cold Weather and Felt Fun
Muscles hereby hates the decimal point and decided the world would be much better off without it. He says that whoever invented the decimal point must be crazy because inventions are supposed to be beneficial. He is working on figuring sales tax amounts in his math. Hmmmm. I am sure we can work this into… Read More The Dirty Decimal Point
This year I am going to more actively attempt to stay away from Monsanto products and try to support heirloom seed companies and natural growers because I really don’t like Monsanto very well and am slightly freaked out by their idea of what is okay to do to the food we eat. I am extremely… Read More Seed Ordering
I spent all day lying in bed feeling sick. See? Proof. This is me doing what I did all day. Laying in bed in my pajamas. Don’t I look lovely? Yeah… Thanks kids. They were actually sick on Christmas. That was really sad. Luckily, hubby had the day off and was able to do… Read More A Sick Day to Mess Around with the Blog
Did you know how easy it is to save basil seeds? They are tiny, but can be easily saved so you don’t have to keep buying new seed packets every spring. At the end of the growing season, let the plants flower (go to seed) instead of keeping the flowers pinched off. Then let the… Read More Saving Basil Seeds