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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.
“It’s ok little overachievers, time to stop flowering and start turning those pretty green fruits, red.” -Me, talking to my zillion GREEN tomatoes on the vine in the…
This overflowing basket of Thai Basil is gorgeous and smells divine. I hated harvesting, it was so lively in the herb garden. Gonna make some pesto.
These Reisetomate Tomatoes are ridiculous and beautiful and odd and delightful.
Tomatoes. The awesomely alien looking cluster one is called Reisetomate from Baker Creek. I had no choice but to try to grow…it looked too fun! Little did I…
We spent many, many hours in the garden today. And now we’re 90% caught up with weeding, composting, hilling, caging, trellising in the one front yard garden (gourds,…
I just harvested my first round of Thai Basil from the herb garden, so excited I have about a dozen plants that have really taken off and are…
Garden 2018: Attempting to Grow at Weber Wonderland As always, let’s see what actually grows for Garden 2018…and then see what actually produces a harvest. Tis an experiment…
Dandelions: Yes of course I’ve eaten dandelion greens. My problem is I seem to wait too long and then they are too big and tough and bitter or they…
Sleepytime Herbal Lemonade To make sleepytime herbal lemonade, just add chamomile, lemon balm, lemons and raw blue agave syrup. Simmer on stove a few hours, strain and enjoy…
Dear TWO + FOOT LONG GARTER SNAKE (Yes, I’m shouting!( Thank you for obviously eating all of the things near the front stairs and in our rose/strawberry porch…
With no rehearsal for the first time in 3 months, I finally spent some “free time” in the garden. I’ve been thinning out our WAY overcrowded strawberry patch…
Oh how I long to get my hands dirty…soon, soon. 1. First cutting of chives and catnip. And basil from indoor plants. 2. Cheery cherry blossoms. 3. And…
Plantasia time! So apparently, we can get a photo of the sign and the top of our heads OR just our heads. It’s always a goofy adventure with…
One of the places I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVEN’T BEEN TO BEFORE NOW—the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. I know right? ME? Never at the gardens? How…
And round one of the seeds are done! 11 different tomatoes, 5 different peppers, leeks, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, dill, basil, Thai basil, chives & parsley.
Peas, please! Sorry, not sorry I ended up shelling and eating the entire bowl of peas I picked from our fall garden this afternoon, straight from the pod….
Garden 2017 Working List in Progress Front Yard Garden (Left) Russet Potatoes Kennebec Potatoes Rainbow Beets Nantes Carrots Red Pontiac Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Fort Portal Jade Bean Hidasa…
Garden Update. About 65% complete transplanting perennial medicinal herbs (echinacea, lovage, milk thistle, marshmallow, wormwood, hyssop, yarrow, horehound, valerian, borage & chamomile) and adding new seeds to the…
In a quest to use more of nature’s free gifts at Weber Wonderland I decided this would be the year I would weed, I mean forage for Dandelions….
Because Saturday sucked, or didn’t go quite as I hoped. I had an early bedtime and woke up at a normal hour this morning. Baby was it cool…
When you have as many cats as we do at Weber Wonderland, you grow your own catnip. In my perfect world, I have a HUGE patch of catnip….
Squee! Looky here! Mama’s first homegrown asparagus spears! And yes exclamation points abound! Because I’m excited and love asparagus! This is one of those vegetables I didn’t grow…
Our first appearance on the Grandma Butter & Auntie Herb: 2017 World Tour takes place next weekend, Saturday, May 6th at 2pm at the West Sparta United Methodist…
Daffodils are my favorite of all the flowers. Yellow daffodils. If I had a million dollars, I would plant a million yellow daffodils all over Weber Wonderland. Long…
Light. My friend Jenn posted this photo on my Facebook page today. It made me smile. It also made me realize how VERY FAR BEHIND I am on…
Strange Compost Plants: Squa-kin-ord? What on earth are these? They came from a mutantly large growing vine in our compost pile that we thought was a pumpkin at…