You know what I love about carrots? The fact that they can stay in the ground as long as it doesn’t freeze. They outlasted the plague that went through our family, all through the month of October and were ready and waiting for me to harvest the remnants in November. They weren’t as sweet and [...]
In today’s world, people never seem to find the time to relax. And for those who seek to be self-productive and self-sufficient by growing their own garden, finding time to maintain it can seem impossible to fit into a busy schedule. Perhaps the busiest of them all is the working Mom. Between chores, varying family [...]
Scooby the rabbit really doesn’t have much to do with the blueberries, but she was running fun and fancy free in the yard the whole day while we worked outside, and thus there is a picture of her, of course. Being bad and eating my plants, of course. My blueberries did not produce this year, [...]
At least the planters are being put to good use, since its still to chilly to put them outside. This one in particular since its a pepper plant, notoriously fickle and delicate. Obviously they make a wonderful napping spot for Buffy. She won’t stay out, actually. She’s not digging or making a mess, she just [...]
I did manage, in the 30 minutes of sunshine we had this long weekend, to get another thing checked off my to-do list: a bird bath for the backyard. All the lovely red-winged blackbirds are back, along with the little brown birds (I am SUCH an Ornithologist, so precise with the naming of the birds [...]
This is what happens when you let me go into a garden center, on the long weekend, surround by beautiful greenery and things I CAN’T PLANT BECAUSE ITS SNOWING. Ok that was my bitterness coming through there, totally. I went to Home Depot (that in itself was enough self torture, but wait, the story continues) [...]
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