We all took advantage of the mild spring weather today to work outside getting some raised beds put together for the garden.  I guess mor...

This week as I was picking up some seed starting mix at the local garden center a bag of bulbs caught my eye: Lily of the Valley (that...

  August is a good month to stop and smell the flowers. Zinnia Green Envy, Love Lies Bleeding, Rannuncula, Baby's breath & Nast...

 This week I am on round three of harvesting chamomile.  This is the german chamomile I planted here and there in my raised beds.     ...

Today's garden journal is brought to you by companion planting.   This winter, I read Carrots Love Tomatoes and did some rough ...

Tonight Loren and I though we'd spotted a hummingbird in our lilacs from out the kitchen window.  It was moving like a hummingbird, an...

It's summer...for real now.

 

I've planted quite a few things....lots of flower and herb starts growing and Sadie's strawberry from seed--and not to forget her su...

Another 4 inches of snow today.  Very light, very fluffy...very beautiful in its own respect, but this is what I'm thinking about :  ...

The summer kind of got away from my camera this year.  I guess that happens when you are umpteen months pregnant and chasing a two-year-ol...