The Vegetable Garden – Year Three

We finally got our seeds in about a week ago and I’m hoping the fact that we’re staring them in the greenhouse will give them a boost and get them up to speed. This year I have decided to fill the entire garden all 110 squares of it. We have some repair work and tilling…

Garlic Mustard and Other Wild Edibles

My first encounter with wild edibles was quite a few years ago before I had kids when I was visiting a good friend in Massachusetts.  A friend of hers was coming over for lunch and arrived with a huge handful of stuff she called wild ramp which she had found on the side of the…

Wordless Wednesday – Growing

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Building the Greenhouse – Part 2

So it’s been quite a while since we started building our green house. Even though it took us several weekends it really doesn’t take that long it’s just that life got in the way, a good friend had a baby and I got a killer cold all at the same time but I’m happy to…

5 Unique Vegetable Gardens

With our greenhouse progress slowed due to heavy rain I’m stuck just thinking about gardens so I’ve decided to put together a list of 5 of the most unique vegetable garden’s that I’ve come across online. In the desert there is limited opportunity to grow your own food but over at Desertification they figured it out how to…

Food for Thought – Leftovers

We are always trying to do our best to buy organic and eat whole foods but we are really bad with leftovers. They sit in our fridge uneaten for weeks. We have things growing in there that could sprout legs and walk away. While browsing the web contemplating breakfast this morning I came across this great…

Building the Greenhouse – Part 1

[ad name=”Amazon Patio Lawn and Garden”] We’ve been busy all weekend working on a greenhouse for our deck. We live in a contemporary with very little space inside the house. We have a large yard and nice deck though. Every year I struggle with the starts and where to put them. I sit them on…

Thinking about the Vegetable Garden

With the mercury hitting the high 40s yesterday it got me thinking about our garden. This will be our third year of vegetable gardening and each year we get a little bit better at it. Last year was our first foray into Square Foot Gardening . Instead of having crazy mounds like we did our first year we…

Disposing of Old Disks

As you can see I have a huge stack of old disks, DVD and CD alike that I have collected over the years.  Most of these have either really old applications or are old data disks that are scratched.  All of them are completely unusable so I’ve been struggling with what to do with them….

The Vegetable Garden – Year Two

[ad name=”Amazon Patio Lawn and Garden”] Last year we fenced off a portion of our yard to put in a garden but only de-sodded half of it. We planted tomatoes, peppers, chard and kale and it produced amazingly well for being neglected and weedy. This year I’ve decided to get serious about our garden and…