Advertisements Today feels like the definition of a lazy summer Sunday. The weather is perfect. Temperatures are in the mid to high 70s, a breeze is blowing and the trees are shading the back yard. My husband loved his father’s day gifts and now he’s content to do nothing more than browse news stories andContinue reading “A Lazy Sunday”
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An Exciting Potato Day!
Advertisements Today, I decided it was time to harvest our first ever potatoes! Really, we wanted to let the potato plants grow for a while longer but while I was rearranging all the plants to try to get them into the fall sunshine, I noticed some damage to the potato plants. The damage was prettyContinue reading “An Exciting Potato Day!”
A Disturbing Find on Our Tomato Plants
Advertisements Our tomato plants seemed to be doing so well and then suddenly started looking bad. It’s true that the weather has started to change but there are still a lot of green tomatoes. We are practicing organic gardening, so bugs are to be expected but up until this point, we had not seen any.Continue reading “A Disturbing Find on Our Tomato Plants”
The Journey of One Marigold from Bud to Bloom in Photos
Advertisements This spring, along with many other seeds, I planted a full packet of Marigold seeds. I was envisioning an explosion of these golden beauties. As time went on, it looked like none of them were going to sprout. Finally, a few sprouted but sadly, no buds appeared. Just when I thought all hope ofContinue reading “The Journey of One Marigold from Bud to Bloom in Photos”
The Joys (and tears) of Small Space Gardening
Advertisements I thought planting a garden from seed would be a great way to save money while getting all the plants I wanted. I had dreams of all types of vegetables and flowers in lovely terra cotta pots filling our bleak but sun drenched upper balcony, like a cheerful cottage garden! The experience turned outContinue reading “The Joys (and tears) of Small Space Gardening”