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All Things Garden
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. — Abraham Lincoln
All things garden, gardening, landscaping, plants, culinary and medicinal herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables. I might not always have a green thumb, but I’m having a lot of fun homesteading and experimenting. 99% organic. My husband even set up an indoor greenhouse area for me to play with! There’s just something about getting my hands in the earth that find irresistible. And NOTHING tastes better than food you grow on your own, you can quote me on that one.
Hey! Did someone say free hay? And this is what we did with the hay. Hilled up the potato garden. Deer have been munching but I think we…
This is our “main garden.” The left side has black mulch down with two sweet corns, red popcorn and baby corn. Also various squashes and pumpkins and gourds…
I haven’t been a good garden blogger AT ALL. I’ll try to be better. Here’s what’s been planted in the Weber Wonderland Garden 2020 to date. Some plants…
Erg. I haven’t felt this way in a few weeks. I ate a healthy breakfast! Open Faced Veggie Omelet – with fresh grown chives and mushrooms. Hurrah! The…
Dear God. After the last week, I have to say I’m feeling a WEE BIT Cautiously Optimistic that things are going to turn around. I have no problem…
The only thing that could have taken my mind of a global pandemic and our country burning — an epic lightning storm. Wowza. The sky was an endless…
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men, it is the music of the people who will not be slaves again…” It’s difficult to…
I took the dogs out and sat on the porch and then went back to bed. My brain wants me to get up and make beignets and coffee,…
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. I just placed an order from a local farm (Davies Hillside Farms) for pork sausage and duck eggs – SCOTCH EGGS ARE IN OUR FUTURE THIS WEEKEND!…
Before the rain. Garden time! Baby bok choi plot next to the garlic. Valerian plot w/ catnip and echinecea. Chinese broccoli plot w/calendula. In case anyone needs to…
Seeds. And. This. Isn’t. All. Of. Them. I placed another order last night. I have a problem. Every year, its chronic and wonderful. I’m behind this year, but…
As I wrote a few weeks ago… One of these days when I’m not 1. sick or 2. anxiety filled and in a fetal position in bed, I…
Who needs roses? Pink oyster mushrooms homegrown at Weber Wonderland for the win. Gorgeous!
If there’s one thing we do right at Weber Wonderland…its providing a friendly habitat for bees. The bees are still quite plentiful loving up on our sunflowers and…
I really only post about my garden successes because there are far, far too many fails and I don’t like to be reminded. (Those seed catalogs tempt me…
And it shall be called the Green Tomato Salsa Experience. Which produced. 22 pints of salsa. Don’t ask for the recipe. Its just a whole lot of this…
Labor Day. I decided to not labor on Labor Day. Not even in the garden (it rained all last night and it’s still pretty damp out there.) DESPITE…
Last night HWMMS and I took a walk around Weber Wonderland and looked at all the bushy flowery viney pumpkin, squash, gourd plants we have growing. So many…
Cucumbers. Picked about 6 the other day. And a few more the next day. And a dozen more just now. (YAY RAIN!) They are a’ comin’. I swear…
Basil overload. I just went out to the herb garden to pick some basil…this is only 8 plants. I dare say there are about 92 more out there….
Behold! The Fern Project is complete! I’ve always wanted to hang ferns from the porch but they are expensive! And we need at least 6 of them…and as…
Seeds! (Round 1) Do you see(d) what I see(d)? Order #1. Of many more. So colorful. So much variety. So full of possibility.
I finally took the time and did a little spice grinding. The smell of fresh grow my own turmeric is potent and breathtaking. Mmmm. I need to grow…
I can’t tell you how many sunflower seeds I planted this year. This is the ONE red sunflower that made it. One.