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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.
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…
Front Yard Gardens Why not? The sun seems to LOVE the front of our house, so we took advantage and started front yard gardens. I was not so…
I started growing Holy Basil Tulsi last year and it flourished. This year, it came back threefold. I now took a bunch of the seeds and started a…
June! Time to check in with the medicinal herb garden. Valerian. I started this from seed. It’s third year of growth so I’m gonna attempt to dig out…
Seed Shopping “Disturb a piece of earth and throw some seeds on it…you’ll get food.” Oh so many seeds, so many seed catalogs. I get the gardening bug…
What a Difference a Year Makes! As everyone and their mother is reporting, tonight is the one-year anniversary date of SNOWMAGEDON in WNY. Winter Storm Knife. Whatever it…
Garden Update: Defeated I love spending time in the garden. I hate owning up to the fact that I’m failing miserably in the garden. I hate June in…
Sour Cherries! Our one wee sour cherry tree at Weber Wonderland is dripping with fruit this year! This photo was taken about a week ago… And tonight, the…
Roses. Sigh. At HWMMS house in Ransomville, he had a gorgeous front porch garden dripping with beautiful roses which our friend Cindy’s grandparents planted years and years ago….
The broccoli, cauliflower and cabbages are coming up nicely! I have at least three different plantings interspersed throughout the brassica patch so they don’t all come up at…
This is my second season experimenting with growing medicinal herbs. Last year I planted *successfully* grew feverfew, valerian, white horehound, milk thistle and calendula. I’ve decided to add…
Ah, the little purple signs of SPRING! I moved the broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage and bok choy out to the porch for some sunshine. We plan on…
Spring has SPRUNG! Overwintering Root Veggies: Found! Ignore the fact that my hair has a ridiculous amount of grey roots showing and for the first time, I think…
Mountain Arnica, Meadow Arnica, Alum, Hyssop, Calendulas and Moonwort. Lil Brother recommended Arnica, it is used for for homeopathic remedies, and oil infusions, compresses on sprains, bruises and…