The Lettuce Patch

During this last weekend, we had some good friends of ours over for dinner.  We had a wonderful time visiting, and I loved all the wonderful gardening advice I got as well.  One of those bits of advice was to take this small strip of dirt along our screen porch, and turn it into a [...]

Hardening Off

It’s finally warmed back up here!  The sun has come out to play- and seems to plan on sticking around for a while.  My tomato plants, while still growing, just have not seemed anywhere near as healthy as last years plants.  I’m going to have to do some researching and learn how to properly grow [...]

Potted up and Planted!

This last week was quite the week, I am still sore! I started out Monday night potting up all my tomato seedlings.  I started at 9pm, and ended up finishing up cleaning up at 2:15am.  It took a bit longer than I anticipated.   When I was done I had to take a count, it looked [...]

May 1st: Erika’s First Planting Day

I spent a good deal of time both yesterday and today pulling weeds from my garden.  Today they came out really easy, due to a lovely spring storm that blew through last night.  I set myself a goal, and told myself that if I could clear from post to post, I could permit myself to [...]