I went plant shopping today. I superficially went out to find some plants to put in my trash salvaged terrarium but I know better than to think that is all I will buy when I go into the greenhouses. I… Read more ›
I could not go outside today. 🙁 My two youngest have both vomiting and diarrhea. Yeah, didn’t want to take them out. Shame they were sick. It was 60F+ today. At least I got to put the top down on… Read more ›
The deer are back. 🙁 They were snacking on my newly sprouted tulips. *sigh* I love the way deer look, but I really wish that they would stay in the woods, instead of wandering through the middle of my suburban… Read more ›
The weather was finally warm enough for me to work out in my garden. I cleared a few bed in the back and tilled a raised bed so I could plant my lettuce. Just a comment on my raised beds.… Read more ›
I was watching Victory Garden today. It was a repeat but I caught a snip about a tree in the Japanese garden they were visiting that smells like cotton candy in the fall. That is my kind of tree! It’s… Read more ›
So, like about 2 months ago, my son was eating an orange and came across some seeds. He asked what they were and I told him it was a baby tree and that if we planted the seed, it would… Read more ›
I have this little hobby called “trash picking”. I have found some really cool stuff while trash picking. Maybe when it gets warmer I will take some pictures of my garden decorations that are from the trash. But today, I… Read more ›
So as a cheesy sort of thing, Santa brought my kids Secret Fortune Beans. Of course, being the procrastinating lot that we are, they did not get opened until last week. This week the bean finally popped up so that… Read more ›
Still cold. But I couldn’t do any gardening today if it was warm anyway. Today is the Official Buzzard Day. What is Buzzard Day? Well, Capistrano has swallows, and Hinckley (a suburb of Cleveland) has buzzards, well turkey vultures but… Read more ›
It’s cold again today, so I decided to do some prep work for the garden. I made some seed tape with some lettuce seeds. I have not made seed tape before but I know the theory. Last year I planted… Read more ›
