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The weather today pretty much stunk. So I stayed inside and made a batch of lemon marmalade, caught up on some emails, and washed 3 loads of laundry. Then, needing to get at least a little bit of gardening in, I went outside and fetched all my seed starting trays from beneath the potting bench. Even though I Read More >>
This past week I worked on cleaning up the garden beds, pulling weeds, laying landscape fabric down near the chicken coop, and cleaning out the greenhouse. Because there was a burn ban this past week, I wasn’t able to get the stumps burned in the backyard like I had hoped, but I was able to Read More >>
10 months from now if I ask you if I should spread straw all over my whole freakin’ garden, please tell me no. Because yesterday I spent half the day cleaning up our 16 raised garden beds. Of course there wouldn’t have been so much work to do had I not spread straw all over the garden Read More >>
When we had the greenhouse installed last spring, I originally thought I would be growing food year round in it. But growing 2,000 pounds of vegetables can be exhausting, and by the end of the season I found myself needing a break. So I threw in the towel, cleared almost everything out of the greenhouse, closed the doors, and didn’t look back. Until Read More >>
Last night I sat down and sorted all the seeds I intend to grow in my 2013 garden. It took me about 2 hours. Thanks to my hottie of a horticulturalist boyfriend Ryan, I will be sowing tons and tons of Botanical Interests seeds in my garden this year. Ryan sent me every seed I could possibly want Read More >>
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