Hey all! Even though the outside currently looks like an early scene from Narnia, I am beginning to think of spring and flowers and wonderful, beautiful, yummy things. After all, Super Sow Sunday (For those who do not care AT ALL about Superbowl, except maybe the food. And the commercials.) has officially come and… Read More Free Shipping on Seeds with Botanical Interests!
Ok. So it is a little bit early for the spring report, but my hyacinths are up already and that means business. No crocuses as of yet. But here is what is awakening in the garden already. 1. Hyacinth. They are popping up all over the south side flower beds. I wish I had planted… Read More The (Early) Spring Report 2014
Well…things have changed. I am working in the church garden, but NOT the community garden. Hubby and I decided that that would be just a bit too much especially with the traveling we wanted to do this summer. We made a great decision. I would have been overwhelmed. We just returned from our 2 weeks… Read More Gardening Update – July 20, 2012
Ta-da! My sweet hubby made me a new planter because I couldn’t find what I was looking for at the store. We bought some boards from Home Depot. They were called 1×12 -4 #2 common boards. Pine? Untreated anyway. They were $5.83 apiece. He simply screwed three of them together and then cut… Read More Chocolate Mint is an herb, honest.
I lost several plants. The first were the radishes. They came up beautifully. They grew fast. But they have fallen victim to my not so green thumb. They weren’t developing right and I got irritated and pulled them all out and planted a houseplant instead. Cuz that’s just the way I roll. I think in… Read More A Sad, Sad Thing Happened
Every gardening season I go out to my garden beds and see two things happening. The mint is thriving and the morning glories are everywhere. The only problem is that I didn’t plant either one of these. The lady who lived here before me must have thought morning glories were charming and mint a delicacy. … Read More Do the World a Favor and Don’t Plant Garden “Thugs”
Already up: (some) peas, beets, arugula, spinach, buttercrunch lettuce, oakleaf lettuce, chives, garlic Waiting to see: royal red lettuce, swiss chard, alyssum (carpet of snow) Just planted: more peas, royal red lettuce, onions, radishes, carrots, Muscles’ giant cabbage (a school project that I really hope I don’t kill), the fruit trees at the church garden,… Read More The Spring Report
So, after I planted my new seed starter kits and transplanted the double plants (hope they make it), I spent a little bit of time trolling around the internet checking out garden ideas and playing on Pinterest and I came across Rosalind Creasy’s blog. She is AMAZING. Talk about an expert. Every picture there could… Read More Edible Landscaping with Rosalind Creasy