Fertile Fridays: First Harvest
Posted on June 6, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 3 Comments
We’ve been sort of counting down until we could happily pluck the fresh heads of broccoli from our garden … today, we did just that — while making dinner. There was something amazing about running outside, plucking a few of the heads and then washing and preparing it. The broccoli literally went from garden plot [...]
Read More..>>Fertile Fridays: May Showers Bring June Flowers?
Posted on May 29, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 4 Comments
Between rain and a nasty virus going around our house most of the week, I’ve barely looked outside — let alone ventured beyond my front door. Seriously. It’s been brutal. But today, the rain finally subsided and the sunlight started to stream through the clouds again … so out we went. (What you can’t see [...]
Read More..>>Fertile Fridays: Sweet Success
Posted on May 23, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 2 Comments
As someone who hasn’t had much luck in the past with gardening, I am constantly amazed and wowed when I look out my office window. Greeted with a large ball of catmint, yellow and fuchsia (when I tried to think of the word for the color, all I could think was magenta … I think [...]
Read More..>>Fertile Fridays: Oh My Broccoli!
Posted on May 15, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 5 Comments
Can you see that? That tiny little beginning of broccoli stopped me dead in my tracks today. I had already written this post and just needed the photos to go with it … then I saw that little spurt of broccoli and I couldn’t contain myself. Ooooh. I am so unspeakably excited. It’s really growing!!!
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Fertile Fridays: Up, Up and Away!
Posted on May 9, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 3 Comments
Rain, rain, rain. Sun. Rain, rain, rain. Sun. That’s been the weather pattern here for the majority of the last week or so. And what does weather like that mean for the foliage? It means lots of growth (yay!) and lots of very tall weeds (boo!). If the weather can hold off for long enough, [...]
Read More..>>Fertile Fridays: Rained Out
Posted on May 2, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 4 Comments
Each Friday, I let you have a peek into my garden. This is the first year that my garden has been progressing in such clear and certain order, and I am so excited to share it.
This week, I really wanted to show you the beginnings of blueberries that appeared on the blueberry bushes, promise of [...]
Fertile Fridays: Totally Grounded
Posted on April 24, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 4 Comments
Will talked all last week about eating outside. We have our table and chairs set up by our newly appointed flower garden and he just couldn’t wait to use it. So, when Sunday evening rolled around, Shawn started up the grill and I got everything we needed onto a tray to carry outside. It was [...]
Read More..>>Fertile Fridays: Preparing Our Raised Garden Beds For Growing
Posted on April 18, 2009 - Filed Under garden | 7 Comments
When the warm weather started to roll around last year, gas prices were rising so fast that they kept me up at night. I worried that the high fuel costs would translate to crisis for food costs and other expenses. That got me thinking about growing our own food in our backyard as a way [...]
Read More..>>Growing Our Own Food
Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under garden, green living | 6 Comments
The price of baby food – the organic, affordable food that Paige eats – jumped 10 cents. Sugar has more than doubled in price for our small town. Gas is teetering on $4 a gallon. I talked about my fears last week . . . and they only seem to intensify as the days pass. [...]
Read More..>>In my garden . . .
Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under garden | 2 Comments
See these irises? I don’t remember having them last year. I didn’t plant them. Yet suddenly they are all over my property (I am not complaining, just merely surprised). And you know what else? The strange “decorative grass” that my husband keeps trying to cut down beside my porch? Turns out it is another variety [...]
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