I usually review books specifically about gardening here on ITGO (this is a garden blog, after all…) but in addition to being a gardener, I’m also very big into DIY in general. We fix things instead of buying new. I can sew (some) and we make all of our own cleaning products. I make most [...]
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Archive for July, 2010
Book Review: Made by Hand
by Colleen Vanderlinden • July 22, 2010 • Miscellaneous, Reviews • 6 Comments
Wordless Wednesday: The Garden This Morning
by Colleen Vanderlinden • July 21, 2010 • Miscellaneous • 7 Comments
How to Make Dill Pickles
by Colleen Vanderlinden • July 20, 2010 • Make It Yourslf, Preserving • 30 Comments
Amazon.com Widgets Pickles and I have a long history. When I was a kid, our family bought pickles from the supermarket like everybody else. Usually, it was Spartan brand, but every once in a while we’d end up with Vlasic or some other brand. One summer, in a totally uncharacteristic act of domesticity, my mother [...]
Read more →Update: Trial Plants from Hort Couture
by Colleen Vanderlinden • July 16, 2010 • Miscellaneous • 5 Comments
Way back in May, I received a beautiful shipment of plants from Hort Couture. I have been meaning to blog about them ever since, but for one reason or another just never got around to it. Very bad. Maybe if these plant gave me something to complain about, I’d have blogged about them sooner. As [...]
Read more →Wordless Wednesday: How a Cheap Gardener Supports Pole Beans
by Colleen Vanderlinden • July 14, 2010 • Miscellaneous • 6 Comments
After he pruned the forsythias, my husband put the longest branches to good use supporting some beans we’d just planted. (Yes, I swooned. Clearly we were made for each other )
Read more →July Seed GROW: A Flaw in My Plans
by Colleen Vanderlinden • July 4, 2010 • Miscellaneous • 12 Comments
My ‘Sptifire’ nasturtiums, which I’m growing as part of the Gardenbloggers seed GROW project (with seeds from Renee’s Garden) have been blooming steadily for the last couple of weeks. The orange of the ‘Spitfires’ looks great with the two little purple peppers that are forming on the ‘Purple Emperor’ pepper plant right now. So I [...]
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