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Slowing down

There hasn’t been much garden to blog about and it makes me sad. I wish I was able to plant my fall/winter garden and be working with that and blogging about it. Hopefully in spring we’ll have another one going where ever we may be. The tomatoes are still producing and I’ve just been making tons of salsa, because these guys are eating like there’s nothing else in the house :lol It only stays in the freezer for a week at most! I’m kinda glad I planted so many now.

The pumpkins continue to grow. I can’t wait to see how well they do for the contest :bounce We’ve gotten a lot of rain and everything is greening up so nicely. It’s funny, in Idaho, everything dies and stops growing in the winter and here, the grass turns yellow and plants slow growth in the summer, but grow most of the winter.

The herbs are really the only other things growing/producing now. The strawberry plants and threatening to take over the neighborhood, I think next year if we were here, we’d see a ton of fruit from them. We only got a tiny bit this year.

I got a deposit from Google Adsense for $307. I’d like to tell the person on that message board that tried to screw me up, to go bugger off, but I won’t. Or did I? It comes at a great time – I had planned on it helping with moving costs, but I have enough web design clients that that will cover the move, so this money will pay for badly needed kid’s clothes. I was starting to think they’d have to wear sheets soon :lol Thank you to all my visitors!

Blog design

I’m going to blog just one time about web design, don’t worry I won’t spam anyone with this again! :D

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If you choose one of the hosting plans on the Hosting Plans page, I’ll do your blog for $200. Using another host or one you already have, $250.  You just have to let me know what you want your header to look like, what colors you prefer, and if you want a 1, 2 or 3 column layout. If you want any pictures used in the header or elsewhere on the template, just send me those. I’ll also include up to 5 plugins installed, activated and customized as needed! In 2 weeks or less (you’ll need to be available by email daily for design feedback) you’ll have an installed and customized WordPress blog ready for you to share your wisdom to the internet =) I’ll also transfer all your posts and comments over to your new blog so you lose nothing!

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A hearty serving of spam

I had to blacklist a lot of porn and medical phrases and add a anti-spam spot to the comments form, just this morning I had 25 comments that had to be zapped  :irked: Please, please use the “Contact Me” link over to the right if you have any problems submitting a comment. I love them! I don’t love the nasty porn crap I got subjected to this morning however (to be clear, I’m not anti-porn…but this stuff is nasty) and the medical stuff is annoying. I don’t have erectile dysfunction. Lots of other dysfunctions, but not that one! ;)

And for a sixth post today

I don’t normally break up a day’s information into multiple posts, but I wanted to try it out today. Other then Blotanical only seeing the latest 2, I like it better. If you’re reading this one, check out all the others from today!

While at Lowes getting the wood for the trellis, I picked up a rosemary plant (organic and 1/2 off the already marked down price) and a basil plant. Errr, I thought it was basil. Chris and I are sick and not wanting to be in public and the kids were good but very active, so we were rushing and I saw a good looking plant in the sweet basil spot so I grabbed it and headed off.

After I finished the trellis, I harvested the rest of the radishes and planted more, then went to plant the rosemary and basil. I pulled the basil out of it’s pot and looked at the tag. Doh! Peppermint! :lol: I love peppermint, so it’s all good, but wow, I goofed. So I planted it and the rosemary, and added another row of lettuce where the spinach refused for a second time to come up.

The garden then finally got a good Earth Juice feeding – it’s been raining for over a week, which is good, but I needed a sunny dry day for feeding them – and I called it a day. My sinuses are stuffed with cotton again and my chest and throat feel like death. But I’m satisfied by doing garden work, so it doesn’t seem so icky :)

garden-of-eatin.com

Moving over… gradually getting it done, but all the posts and comments are here now, and all new gardening posts will be made here, not on the blogger blog. Thank you for reading!!

Note about images: Posts older then this one with images will not open up their images to full size.

Quizzicals

I Am Cilantro
The bad news is that there are
some people who can’t stand you.
The good news is that most people love
you more than anything else in the world.
You are distinct, unusual, fresh, and very controversial.
And you wouldn’t have it any other way.
What Spice Are You?

This one is cracking me up:

I am a Lemon

You have a very distinct personality. And if you’re
not being sweet, you’re a little hard to take.
You’re a bit overpowering, especially
in one on one situations.

And while you are very dominant, sometimes
your power is needed and appreciated.
You can liven up a dull situation, and you
definitely bring a fresh outlook.
You are a bit of an acquired taste, and
you tend to grow on people over time.
People feel refreshed and rejuvenated
after spending time with you.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

I am a
Canna


What Flower
Are You?

Place to go on the web

Blotanical. A clever mix of blog and botanical (er, right?). Here I am finding a whole bunch of awesome gardening blogs and meeting a whole bunch of awesome gardening peoples (I like the words peoples. Don’t ask me why, I don’t know), and learning a whole bunch of gardening ideas, tips, tricks and stuff.

The points system is set up pretty well to give folks an incentive to visit other’s blogs, leave comments, pick good posts and even log in. The whole set up is actually well done, though being able to view people’s plots from “Picks” list pages would be handy. I have a hard time adding people’s blogs to my favorites when I find them through the Picks system. Same with the “Most Favorited Blogs” page. But over all, a minor frustration. From a graphic/web designer’s viewpoint, the page isn’t so zen/feng shui on my 1680 wide screen, but that’s not even a frustration, just a matter of aesthetics. No annoying flashing, easy on the eyes colors. I think you can join without a blog, to participate as a member, but I’m not sure on that. A forum might be nice, but I don’t know if it would add to or take away from the community-ness of it all.

Garden of Eatin’

I changed the name of the blog. There’s a little place on I15 going between Idaho Falls and Pocatello with this big beautiful garden and a sign: Garden of Eatin’. I just remembered that I always wanted that sign on my garden (it’s been over a year since we moved from Idaho) so I figured my garden blog name is the next best thing.

Plants still aren’t looking great. The strawberries are still growing and that is really making me think transplant shock. I have plenty of seeds to start over, and quite a few beefsteak and roma plants still inside…time will tell if I’ll have to start some or all of them over. I have come to the knowledge that complete and proper hardening off is important!!