Anna wrote that square foot gardening isn’t working for her and she is going back to regular rows. Instead of clogging up her comments I decided to post my thoughts here. I had posted some of my own research earlier. Andrea commented that her family loved potatoes and would up the amount. I agree. Please feel free […]
Right now the family garden is a rather small backyard garden. I have been reading and studying (and trying to impliment) about how to produce good amounts in a small space. It seemed providential to find Path to Freedom and their urban homestead set-up. Good ideas to think about and try.
Now that we have more space I have […]
An online friend is having some fun with Queen Anne’s Lace using its royal perogative to grow where it isn’t wanted. Hmmm…roll through the mental rollodex and….
Queen Anne is nature study (pictures), as the butterflies prefer to lay their eggs leaves of plants in the parsley family (Apiaceae) including Queen Anne’s Lace, carrot, celery and dill.
Queen […]
Remember those old Organic Gardening magazines & books? or the old Mother Earth News? The ones back in the day when the focus was growing your own food as healthily and cheaply as possible. The days when people were capable of using what was on hand to get where they needed to go. NOT the […]
Roundup for the family that is spread out this weekend.
Swimming: We had out first family outing to the city pool today. Our pool charges .25 per person per 2 hour session and is maybe 4 blocks away. We went once last year & am determined to do better this year. The goal is every Friday. I was a bit […]
We have been working on finishing planting the garden, the herbs, and assorted other plant projects. Not quite as fast as I’d like, but getting there.
Rhubarb bed: I have wanted one ever since my Dad & Carol gave us some strawberry-rhubarb jam. mmmm…. Last fall Dad made the mention that his plants had grown so […]
Brian surprised me the other day by tilling the garden–just in time for it to rain that night. We had a mild discussion of the shrinking size and where it used to be. Yesterday he retilled and made it wider–much more than I had ever wanted. But there are storms/rain headed our way so I […]
Originally this was to be a post on my garden plans but the day is getting away from me so instead–amaranth.
Amaranth one garden plant that I have been wanting to try for years but with this-that-and-the-other never got around to even dog-earing the catalog page. This is the year that amaranth is the experimental plant.
Why […]
Or perhaps apologies to our Canadian neighbors.
Once again Martinzoo posted some more wonderful homeschool ideas. While I love the idea of participating in the backyard bird count it isn’t going to happen this year. But the tomatosphere project is entirely different. Let’s see–nature study, gardening, 4H, and something Mommy loves to do–sounds like a winner!!
So with Little […]
The first garden catalog of the season has arrived!! Garden season is just around the corner!!
It seems odd to be thinking of gardens and seed planting before December arrives, but moving to the south as changed the garden planning in ways that I’m still trying to learn. We have just been rezoned into 6b/7 meaning earlier […]