Growing garden :

All Things Spring!

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Before the creeping crocuses stick their heads out of the frigid earth to alert us to the fact that Spring is here, it is time to do a little Spring planning![...]

Mower-Mulched Leaves

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The leaves on the lawn in my yard don’t satisfy my leaf craving, so I go trolling the curb for bags and bags of my neighbors’ leaves, too.  I’m sure I raise some eyebrows, like when I raid their cardboard on recycle day,[...]

Better Safe Than Sorry

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Facing a week of lows in the single digits, I harvested all the collards, broccoli, and cabbage. Part of me wanted to see just how cold it could go, maybe with a row cover, but, as I mentioned in the post title, I’m a coward when it[...]

Cabbage Novice Seeks Input

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My first year growing cabbage and I don’t know what to expect. I planted little seedlings of red cabbage in February and they have grown beautifully since. I think they are in the “pre-cupping” stage but since[...]

Seedling Secrets?Hand ? Em Over

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Confession:  I’ve never been very successful growing stout little plants from seed indoors.  They germinate well and seem happy but never look like those brick house-looking dynamos from the nursery. I have a cool bulb and a warm[...]

WWW ~ Me time and Even a Date Night

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Well it was one heck of a weekend as always. I set out to take care of me, I've been putting myself off for sometime and knowing that if I don't feel good about me then I'm not doing any good for anyone around me. Saturday after work I was[...]

Image of The Day ~ Tomatoes On The Vine

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Tomatoes On The Vine S ome green, some red, some ripe, some not is it really a fruit, I think not reminders of the garden I keep dreaming the homestead we are working little by little, a new plot added here[...]

Saving Tomato Seed for Next Year's Plants

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For those of you who have the space and time to devote to a vegetable garden (even if it's a tomato plant in a container on your balcony or deck), I promised I would share my method of saving tomato seeds so that you could grow your own plants next[...]

Saving Tomato Seed for Next Year's Plants

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For those of you who have the space and time to devote to a vegetable garden (even if it's a tomato plant in a container on your balcony or deck), I promised I would share my method of saving tomato seeds so that you could grow your own plants next[...]

Weekend Wrap Wednesday .... The Ups and Downs

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Yet another amazing weekend here, I had big plans to head up to Seattle to take the boys to the Science Center or EMP but didn't want to go alone. Sadly I found no takers to go with me, Rick worked 2 jobs Saturday so he was out. So I took the[...]