animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

dirt therapy

I spent the evening working in the herb garden. It’s now edged and weeded. Tomorrow, I’d like to finish it off. I don’t have nearly enough herbs to fill it so now I need to decide whether to go out and buy some more plants or try some of the …

black thumb

I don’t know what the deal is, but most of my tomato plants died again this year (and I didn’t even fry them in the cold frames this year. I guess it could be any one of a number of things. I haven’t had the time to dedicate to my …

the weather

It has been quite rainy and cold the past two weeks. I was hoping to at least have my tomato and squash-type plants in the cold frames by now, but it just hasn’t been warm enough to do so. I had to remove these plants from the grow lights to …

garden time

I got in a little garden time this evening. I planted some more carrots and some beets and did a little weeding. Brian was cutting the grass while I was gardening, so I did some trimming as well and then started in on the herb garden, which is out of …