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Spring Training and the Garden
Once again, the first signs of summer have arrived. Baseball spring training and garden catalogues. I love summer. I love baseball. I LOVE gardening. I’m an optimistic and lazy gardener. I start...
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White House Vegetable Garden at Your House
The White House now has a vegetable garden – or at least plowed soil and a plan for one. It’s probably safe for them to plant cool weather crops, but still a few weeks away from the warmer weather...
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Container Herb Garden
Herb gardens are easy, fun and tasty. You’ll need the following: Large container (large pot, basket or wash tub) – a 16″ pot can hold 5 – 6 plants, so the larger the container, the more herbs you can...
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Fusilli Pasta
Nothing special, did use a bunch of fresh basil from our container herb garden. Hmm, guess that would be worth a pic or three. Enjoy!Filed under: Garden, JeffreyW, Recipes Tagged: basil, container...
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Tomato mascot update
Yay! Some flowers on the container cherry tomato plant. All of the container plantings are doing pretty well so far, with the exception of the two sweet basil plants that took a beating in a hail...
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Mascot Update
We had a scare from a horde of aphids that swarmed our tomato mascot, but a thorough drenching with some bug juice seemed to handle them OK. We skated by with some leaf damage but nothing worse, and...
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Hummingbird moth
I was out this morning watering the patio flowers and noticed this hummingbird moth flitting about.He’s in the upper right at a yellow blossom. I dropped the hose and ran in for my camera and spent a...
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Need more kitties
We have 6 inches of snow on the ground this morning and Miss Bitsy was not really eager to check it out, though she finally made her way out the door. It didn’t take her very long to look at it. Here...
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Tidbits
I’m loving my new smart phone. Not so much for the phone function or texting as for the “always there” camera. The Galaxy S4 has a dandy, a 13 megapixel job with modes and features that I may never...
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Peppers
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Tidbits
It got cold enough the other night to freeze the little bird bath thing. Bonus! – Homer in the window keeping an eye on me. It’s a good thing my container garden, so far, isn’t any larger, it just...
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Tidbits
First hummer of the season! Yay! They’re still not really here, I’ve seen two at the most. We’ve had a few Canada Geese spending time at the pond. Katie has given up trying to chase them off, they...
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Hummingbird Moth Pr0n
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Herb gardens are easy, fun and tasty. You’ll need the following: Large container (large pot, basket or wash tub) – a 16″ pot can hold 5 – 6 plants, so the larger the container, the more herbs you can...
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