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I was milling around The Home Depot yesterday when I spotted the most gorgeous purple viola plants and knew I had to buy them for my front window box. When I was a kid my mother always planted pink, white and purple flowers in our yard. And now as an adult, I tend to gravitate Read More >>
Well hello there. How has the weather been at your place this past week? It’s been unusually nice in my neck of the woods. So nice in fact I was actually able to get quite a bit done in the garden beds this past week. For starters, I transplanted some a few carrots from one Read More >>
The Girl and I were at the garden center the other day when I noticed a sack of onion bulbs for sale. Which reminded me of the Anderson Island Farm my online boyfriend Ryan and I visited last summer. One of the things I remembered about the gardens was that their onions were HUGE for Read More >>
Yesterday I spent the afternoon transplanting lettuce starts in the greenhouse. For the past two springs I have grown lettuce in my greenhouse gutters with great success, so I figured hey, why not do it again. Why mess with a good thing, right? 😉 You don’t have to have a greenhouse to try this. Nope, Read More >>
Lucy the puddle dog and I were out in the garden yesterday when we noticed not a single pea we planted a few weeks ago had broken through the soil yet. Instead, all of the peas had all been pulled up by a vicious flock of birds and either gobbled up or left to die Read More >>
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