Posted in Gardening on Apr 4th, 2012
Ok, since you all are so very smart and were able to ID the hostas that were coming up in my flower beds, let’s try these new unidentified things. These start like this: And then open to this: These trees are about 7 feet tall. They were deliberately planted since they have evidence of plastic [...]
The darndest thing happened today. A green version of this showed up in my backyard. March 28, 2012 It just happens to be a compost tumbler just like I wanted. It also happens to be identical to one that went on sale online and had free overnight shipping. What a coincidence! The SO has fought [...]
Posted in Gardening on Mar 21st, 2012
This year is going to be a surprise. We have a heavily landscaped yard with no idea what if anything is going to appear since it hasn’t been tended in several years. With this week of crazy warm temperatures plants are starting to come out of hibernation. I hope it doesn’t snow again. We aren’t [...]
Posted in Gardening on Aug 30th, 2011
Everything is starting to rebloom in my garden. It has been a really weird year here. I don’t remember all of the roses reblooming before but it is nice. I planted three packets of sunflower seeds. I got one plant. But at least it is a plant with multiple flowers! My tomatoes have gone insane. [...]
Posted in Gardening on Jun 30th, 2011
This is the first pickings from the garden this year.
I was sitting here today when the SO came in and said, “I thought you’d be out hoeing?” I answered, “What are you, my pimp now?” Apparently he meant that I should have been out planting the flowers I bought this week. Fine. I already have the veggies in – three tomatoes, two peppers, two [...]
Posted in Gardening on May 20th, 2010
I planted 5 tomato plants of different varieties and 5 pepper plants. I learned from last year and put the tomato cages on the plants now instead of waiting and having to wrestle monstrous plants into them later. I started several rows of lettuce and spinach. There are also cucumbers and green beans. The bed [...]
Posted in Gardening on May 4th, 2010
I’m so proud of my front flower bed. I bought some creeping phlox last fall on sale and planted it. It is Candytuft, a pink and white striped variety. They were just itty bitty little plants all winter but in the last week they exploded! They have more than doubled in size and put out [...]
Posted in General on Apr 30th, 2010
Yesterday I got caught in such a perfect storm of marketing and upselling that I had an out of body experience and just watched it all happen to me. Sometimes you just have to step back and marvel when you see a master at work. I went into Teavana. I’d had samples of tea outside [...]
I’m at the point of the gardening cycle where “Let’s plant this variety and this variety and this variety…” has morphed into “What am I going to do with all these tomatoes?” Today I’m oven drying two cookie sheets full and I processed six freezer bags worth of diced tomatoes. I realize that isn’t a [...]
This is what I got out of the garden today. There are three types of tomatoes (grape, early girl, and the first beefsteak) and the very first pepper of the season. It is a bite-sized type that I hadn’t seen before. Now I’m being a good girl and not eating the pepper. I’m waiting until [...]
Check out the new theme! I know most people are probably reading this in a RSS feed but come on over and see the new summery design. If you are on a feed aggregator here’s a summery shot to tide you over. Guess what this is. 192 identical 4.5 inch half-square triangles. I can’t believe [...]
My first sunflower finally opened. Across the street there are lots of sunflowers and I was having sunflower envy. Now I feel better! I’ve done all three of my running sessions for week one of the Couch to 5K program. The good news is that I’m not having shin splint problems at all! I’ve been [...]
We’ve started a new renovation project. We are going to be adding a low stone wall around the porch. Of course since there is a male, non-blogger, non-scrapbooker involved he started the project without doing the most important part of the prep work – the before photo. He said that the before was ugly so [...]
Looking what’s growing in my garden! My tomato plants are starting to flower. I guess planting them a few weeks early paid off this year. I’m not sure what this is. I know I didn’t plant it. It is probably some horribly noxious person-eating weed but it has really cool seeds. My sunflowers are at [...]
I am so excited! I have to share. No, those are not weeds. Those are itty bitty baby lettuces that started out as seeds I sprinkled on the ground! Super-micro greens! I’m such a proud plant mama. I’ve never grown any kind of greens before. I just have about a foot long row planted and [...]
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