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And it begins … my first garden update.
Now that some of the stuff inside has been completed, we are finally getting around to doing some work outside the house. While I like when things are finished inside, I am much more at home playing in the dirt! So, here is a little update of the things that we are doing to make … Continue reading
A smattering of books (aka Recent Reads)
Here is some of the books that I have recently read … – An entertaining look at the various predictions that have appeared in Popular Mechanics, including both the ridiculous and the nearly true. For the historian of science, these predictions are a useful tool and a fun parlor game; for everyone else, they are … Continue reading
Landscaping with Herbs
Rodale’s Essential Herbal Handbooks: Landscaping With Herbs written by Nancy Ondra is an interesting little book. It will tell you nothing about the use of the herbs recommended for planting. It will tell you very little about the cultivation of various herb varieties. It offers a number of very specific landscape designs that gardeners can either … Continue reading
Recent Read: Wicked Plants
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart is entertaining but slightly disappointing! Interesting little book that provides some of the basic details about many poisonous plants, but don’t think that you will learn anything more than the basics from it. The illustrations are useful for identification and while scientific names are given, the descriptions are too vague to … Continue reading
Recent Reads
Well, I finally finished reading Heirloom Vegetable Gardening but while I was reading it, I also managed to finish a couple of other books! The Heirloom Vegetable Gardening tome is a great volume and I would like to have a copy of it on my gardening bookshelf for future reference. Now, on to the other … Continue reading
Big & Little Books of Heritage Vegetables
A couple of additional gardening books that I am currently reading … and The first book (Heirloom Vegetables: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Finding and Growing Vegetables from the Past) is an ideal beginners book. About half of the book concerns the reasons to grow heritage vegetables and some of the details about how to … Continue reading
Garden Update
Garden is doing well … And, we are starting to get a regular supply of items … we have gotten a handful of small tomatoes, these two squash, and one large tomato. But, from all of the fruit on the vines, we are going to have a lot of little tomatoes soon and probably 8-10 … Continue reading
Gardening …
A couple of weekends ago, Jill and I did some gardening. We added mulch around the house and planted a handful of plants – 4 tomatoes, 3 squash, some herbs (including two types of basil, in pots below) and a bunch of flowers … including the sunflowers that we grew from seeds. Here are few … Continue reading
Why I want a garden …
Thinking about moving back home has made me think of the things that I want to be able to do and one of those things is to have a nice little garden to grow some fruit, vegetables, and maybe a handful of flowers. As I was thinking about my future garden, I have also been … Continue reading
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