Living, Loving & Laughing – ALWAYS!
I got 12 yd.³ of 50-50 compost and topsoil delivered this morning. I am a happy girl. Never thought I’d be so excited about Soil. Looking forward to digging into it soon.
I have a few days off and I’m hoping to build all the raised beds this weekend.…
OMG! This year is going to be epic. I found this new program called SEEDTIME! It is the best! It allows me to put in all my seed info. Creates a calendar for me with all my tasks, seeding, direct sow, transplant, harvest etc.…
Well I finally got my plan together for the garden. I am so excited for it. Lets see how well it grows!
You can view it here:
https://gardenplanner.almanac.com/garden-plans/1453041/
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Well I was bored and sick at home with a stupid head cold, so I decided to put my Leaf GreenStalk Vertical Planter together. I bought the original tower too for strawberries but they didn’t send the spinning base. So, unfortunately I have to wait to construct that one.…
So at the end of each growing season, I harvest the rest of my herbs and greens and I like to dry them.
Right now I just stack sweater drying racks together to dry all my greens and herbs, but these racks are very bulky and hard to store.…
Ok, I always have a lot of garden seeds and keep trying to figure out a better way to organize them. Right now I have them in baggies in a container.
I thought maybe one of those door hanging shoe organizers would work, but I didn’t have an extra one.…
Wow it’s that time again. Got all the old torn out and amended the soil with my dried and ground food scraps from my Food Recycler! I also added a layer of soil prep on top. There have been 3 very small snow/rain storms since.…
I had a bunch of ripe bananas. So of course I made Guten/Dairy Free Banana Bread!
I made 4 beautiful loaves! Can’t eat them all at once, so I slice them with my meat slicer and freeze.
Wait til the loaves are completely cooled before slicing.…
Wow been a long time! Here is another prepping tip. Got a bunch of pomegranates on discount shelf. Here is another good use for silicone baking cups. Regular size muffin cups are about 1/2 c. Jumbo muffin cups are about 1 c.…
Do you use lemon or orange zest in recipes? If so then make your own! You will need a handy dandy Zester Tool to do this.
If you buy organic oranges or lemons, before you juice or cut them up, ZEST them!…