Everything in the garden is coming along swimmingly – although keeping weeds and beetles at bay is becoming a losing battle.  Since the last update, I’ve picked eight cucumbers, ten tomatoes and five green and peppers. I’ve also picked the cauliflower and almost a dozen banana peppers. Here’s what came out of the garden on […]

You need to find yourself a copy of the Country Gardens Summer 2009 Issue (Better Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publication). It was at my local library and it was full of goodness. My favorite thing: (BH&G) Doesn’t this look straight out of a fairy tale? Unfortunately, this is the only photo that I could find […]

For several months, Ryan and I have been talking about starting to compost. Part of it is an attempt to be green – we hate to throw all our food scraps away. Part of it is practicality – we have lots of gardening that could use healthy compost. But, like many things – it took […]

Here’s another example of using large cans as containers. If you haven’t done it yet, you are totally behind the curve. It’s like big bangs in 1992 – just gotta have them. I got an email from Betty, a wonderful friend of ours (and the mother of Ryan’s best man). She shared her very own […]

Here’s another example of using large cans as containers. If you haven’t done it yet, you are totally behind the curve. It’s like big bangs in 1992 – just gotta have them. I got an email from Betty, a wonderful friend of ours (and the mother of Ryan’s best man). She shared her very own […]