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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.
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…
This little lime tree has been growing a lime for quite some time! Today, we decided it was a good day to use the little fella. You know,…
Mushrooms and Bulb Planting: It’s been a beautiful week, weather much warmer than usual which meant it was the PERFECT time to plant. Bulbs, bulbs, more bulbs and…mushroom…
I was so excited to see a baby lime on our wee lime tree in the greenhouse! HWMMS reaction? WE ARE BECOMING MARGARITA SUSTAINABLE! You know, in case…
300 Gallon Rain Collectors. I grew up on a small farm. And on this small farm we had a small well. Or at least I THINK it was…
Above the the large garden we plan on fencing in to keep the beasts out! And so far this is what we have planted… June 5th: Beans: Cannelini,…
It’s wonderful and exhausting that the people who owned this land for 10 years before we bought it did ZERO landscaping. Today, HWMMS did the tough work of…
Veggies and Herbs. MAY! It’s MAY and I don’t even have all the early Spring seeds and plants in the ground yet! Where does the time go? Today…
Now that we are in our forever home, surrounded by land and woods we are going to start reforesting with new trees. My brother told me about the…
Bambi: The ENEMY! I casually walk past the front door and windows on my way to the bathroom and sneak a glance outdoors of two eyes on some…
HWMMS and I visited the Springville Auction just to waste sometime in our new stomping grounds before meeting the BEST REALTOR EVER for our final walk through. (Reserving…
Everyone has a large box of Gnomes, right? I actually went to the garage and got a small box because I didn’t realize how many gnomes we had….