I took a short (very short, because it is still freezing here today!) walk around my garden today to get some photos of the perennials emerging from their winter slumber. Most of the photos didn’t turn out very well (a shivering garden blogger will have that effect on a photo…) Of the few that did, [...]
Read more →Note to my readers: This is a long, very personal post. If that’s not your type of thing, that’s fine with me, really. Come back and visit another day and we’ll talk tomatoes –Colleen I started gardening for love. Some back story is important here, I suppose. Growing up, I was very close to my [...]
Read more →There has been some discussion in the blogosphere of late about garden design as it pertains to vegetable gardens. Yesterday on Garden Rant, guest blogger Robin Ripley admonished those who don’t pay proper attention to design principles in their vegetable gardens to start doing so. She says: “All of these ugly vegetable gardens are giving [...]
Read more →This is what I got in the mail the other day: Oh, yes. It was a fun mail day! Here are the seeds we ordered so far this year: Seed Savers Exchange: Beans, ‘Good Mother Stallard’ Beans, ‘Hidatsa Shield Figure’ Beans, ‘Ireland Creek Annie’ Corn, ‘Golden Bantam Improved’ Ground Cherry, ‘Aunt Molly’s’ Pea, ‘Amish Snap’ [...]
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