I wish I had more time for writing in my blog. I really do. CRAZY BUSY Just got done putting on a little Earth Flag parade for stewardship campaign at church with the help of friends and I’ve been organizing my spring classes. “Menu for the Future” spring series cranks up again on Friday at [...]
Archive for the ‘Garden’ Category
Food and Sustainability
Posted in FUCO, Garden, Life, Local Events, Self-Watering on February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A New Start
Posted in Garden, tagged almanac, calendar, Garden, kitchen garden, SFG, square foot garden on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently cruising the Osceola Gardening Almanac. I like the breakout of 3 mos at a time. There’s also the monthly breakout by Orange County Extension Office. I think I might manage a small 2 ft x 8 ft herb bed. That would be nice. I like what fresh herbs do for cookery. I [...]
The Other Spring
Posted in Garden, Life on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning Julia told me that she wanted to sleep some more. “I don’t WANT to go to kindergarten!” So I pulled the Mom Classic of going selectively deaf. “Get up. You have to eat breakfast.” Paul didn’t get her to bed on time last night and she’s grumpy. But Julia is actually adjusting well [...]
Time for Low Key
Posted in Garden, Life, SFG, tagged Garden on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am resisting the urge to do anything housework-y right now. It’s 10:22 PM. What I ought to do is make myself some tea and think about doing something relaxing. I’m trying to learn not to be so Type A. Each and every summer day doesn’t have to be crammed full of things. This is [...]
Snake, Strawberries, Onions, Carrot, Beans
Posted in Garden, SFG, Uncategorized, tagged carrot, Garden, nantes, onion, organic garden, racer, SFG, snake, sqaure foot garden, strawberries, sweet onion on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Life has been busy with one special event or another. Just got done with a benefit performance of Rocky Horror over at church. That was a blast! YESTERDAY Yesterday and today we put in some garden work. We’d started do last month but got derailed, but I think we’re definitely going now. The momentum is [...]
Hello, Eggplant!
Posted in Garden, SFG on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is our most recent backyard harvest for dinner….I was thinking pasta so there were the first two eggplants, then some green basil and some purple basil, any little yellow tomatoes that were ready… and I decided to bring in the next two purple cherokees to finish ripening in the kitchen perhaps for some future [...]
First and Second Lettuce Harvest
Posted in Garden, Salad, Self-Watering on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Remember the lettuce we planted shortly before Winter Solstice? We’ve been eating them. Here is one of them 12/21/07: It was like this on 1/30/08: On 2/8/04 it had gotten this fluffy so I decided to harvest it and its friends and make a salad: Here is the first harvest: Julia did not want to [...]
SFG Series: Filling Your 4 x 4 ft raised Bed
Posted in Garden, SFG on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Dirt Day” is always a fun day over at my house. My preschooler looooves to dig and it’s one of her favorite parts to getting a new bed together. In the All New Square Foot Gardening book, Mel Bartholomew suggests this formula for making up your soil mix for your raised bed: 1/3 vermiculite 1/3 [...]
Square Foot Gardening With Children (and Kid’s Tools!)
Posted in Garden, SFG on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction I started putting in a 100 sq ft kitchen garden for myself last summer. I’m still nowhere close to being done installing beds and I’m still learning as I go along when it comes to growing edibles. But I’ve really gotten to love spending time with my preschooler puttering around in the yard. I’ve [...]
Purple Dragon Carrot Harvest
Posted in Garden, SFG, tagged carrot, dragon, harvest, purple on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was fun — carrot harvest day. Out of the 32 seeds I put in, we got 23 out. Though next time I will plant 9 per sq foot rather than the suggested 16 because they get fluffy, and then the bigger ones cover up the smaller ones and they struggle for light. They were [...]
