Wow this past weekend was a busy one! I did a lot of fun things so I thought I would share them. On Friday night I met Benzo after work and we went to dinner at Ingredient. Neither of us had ever been there before so we were excited to try a new place. Ingredient… Continue reading Weekend Wrap Up: Ingredient & Seed Shopping
Category: Garden
Everyday Composting
If you are thinking about starting a garden this year, you should consider starting a compost pile. Composting is recycling in its simplest form. In a bin or a pile you throw together all kinds of organic matter. Stuff you would normally throw away like vegetable scraps and leaves. Then all the little micro-organisms work… Continue reading Everyday Composting
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Recycled Seed Containers
If you are planning a garden this year, you have two options for growing plants. One option is to buy seedlings at a local nursery and transplant them into your garden. The second option is to start your own seeds indoors and grow your own seedlings. Starting seeds indoors is cheaper than buying transplants, however seedlings require… Continue reading Recycled Seed Containers
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Come Grow With Me
Happy Friday! I'm so glad that it's Friday but I am seriously starting to get tired of cold weather. I'm sick of being freezing all the time and I'm especially over my winter wardrobe. I'm ready for short sleeves, capris and skirts. Most of all I'm ready for some SUN. However, even though it's freezing… Continue reading Come Grow With Me
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Garden 2009: Failures…
I wanted to write some posts to catch up on my garden from last year. A couple weeks ago I wrote about my garden successes in 2009. Today is the opposite - the plants that were complete failures in 2009. Cucumbers. Cucumbers were a complete and total failure. I tried planting them twice and barely… Continue reading Garden 2009: Failures…
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Surprise Harvest
Look what we found in the garden today: Surprise! The carrots we planted last fall (and never picked) had survived the crazy snow. The snow has finally melted almost all the way so we were able to go check out the garden this afternoon. And we dug up these carrots. We already tried one and… Continue reading Surprise Harvest
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Garden 2009: Successes!
So since I completely abandoned my blog last year, I didn't post anything about my second year of gardening. I had so much fun with my first garden that I had to do a second garden. Browse through the 2008 posts in the spring and summer months if you want to read about my first… Continue reading Garden 2009: Successes!
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Mini Mees
I have developed a cold. It sucks. I'm laying in bed with a box of tissues, watching my all-time favorite movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, waiting for my nighttime cold medicine to kick in. I also thought I could catch up on some blogs I have had planned for weeks! This tiny watermelon has… Continue reading Mini Mees
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Rain, Rain Go Away!
Until today, I had not been out to the garden since last Wednesday. This is what I found in the rain gauge when I went out there this afternoon:From last Thursday through Saturday night we got almost FIVE inches of rain. I think it might have been the remanents of tropical storm Lowell (from the… Continue reading Rain, Rain Go Away!
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Garden Count Update
I have finally added up my tallys over the past two months and here are the numbers of everything I have picked from the garden so far. These numbers only include good items and do not include anything that went straight into the compost bin.Zucchini - 77Bush beans - 2,192Grape tomatoes - 508Okra - 98Watermelon… Continue reading Garden Count Update
Everything Is Homemade 