Does winter mean we have to forgo the pleasure of eating fresh vegetables? If you live in the Midwest US like I do getting those fresh veggies from your garden ended a couple of months ago (unless you have shelter for your plants). It’s only 10 degrees F outside, but that doesn’t mean you can’t …
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2009
Vicious Winter Storm
Our first snow of the season and it has to be a yucky one. Monday morning it started snowing and it left about an inch on the roads. Tuesday it was more of the same until about 6 PM. Wet, heavy, slippery snow started to fall in blankets across the landscape. Great for plants, bad …
Gratifying Harvest
It is so gratifying to be able to make meals with vegetables and herbs harvested from your own garden. Yesterday I made a mushroom soup that called for a mixture of herbs like sage, thyme, marjoram and rosemary. I had all but the marjoram – which I substituted with oregano – right in my garden. …
Larger Garden
My computer is broken so I haven’t been able to regularly update. I was able to expand thesize of my garden by 6 x 12 feet. I filled thespace with mounds for zucchini, cucumber, watermelon and squash. It’s been really dry so I’ve had to water with the hose almost daily.
Finally Some Seeded Flats
It’s Saturday morning and though I got a late start on seeding my flats this year I am pretty happy with my progress. I have one mini greenhouse, one milk jug and 2 of the 10″ x 20″ black plastic flats with clear plastic domed covers planted. After just 4 days I even have some …
Snow in April
Last week I noticed as I looked out the window that my tulips are peaking out of the ground as are my daylilies, wormwood and phlox. It won’t be long and we will have a lush display of many shades of green with different textures and shapes of leaves. It made me itch to do …
Plants That Tell You When To Water
There are many products on the market that are made to make remembering to water your plants easier. Whether it’s a ceramic worm that changes color or a glass globe with a long tube that sticks into the soil and self waters there is one thing you have to do – PAY ATTENTION. Neither of …
Joined the 350 Challenge
Yesterday I joined the 350 Challenge to help fight climate change. The thank you message I received from Brighter Planet explains why I was inclined to do so even though they had already reached their goal of 350 bloggers. Check out the Brighter Planet 350 Challenge badge in the far right sidebar of my blog. …
Flooding in the Midwest
Last weekend and the beginning of this weeks were horrible days of scary weather. We had tornado warnings, continuous rain and massive flooding. Everywhere you looked in NW Ohio there were rivers and creeks overflowing their banks and low lying areas in farmer’s fields that were flooded. Roads were impassible and even sections of area …
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01
@handbagheaven I’m still looking for a handba. I’ve been shopping at JCPenney, Kohl’s and Sears so far # @eMom after I had DD2 in late December I was away from my computer so long my inbox was buried in 10s of thousands of emails! Yikes # @frandrescher My mother in law is a 18 year …