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Slowing down

by on September 26, 2008 in General

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!

And for a sixth post today

by on June 8, 2008 in The Growing Garden

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 :)

The good kind of tired

by on May 27, 2008 in Plans & Getting Going, The Growing Garden

Most days I’m tired but it’s not a satisfying kind of tired. Today however, hoo-boy.
My to do list was fairly simple: mow the lawn and transplant the tomatoes and blueberries.

But what I got done, with Chris’ help, was a bit more:

  • Mowed the backyard
  • Cultivated the area for the tomatoes & transplanted them
  • Moved the green peppers to make more room for the squash and zucchini, then moved those to give them more growing room
  • Did some weeding in the garden
  • Planted the blueberries
  • Did some serious heavy duty clearing and weeding around the unused gate. Found the bulb plants actually do produce flowers (iris or tulips or ? I’m not sure, will find out when they open up I guess!), they didn’t last year (will get pictures soon).
  • Thorough watering in the garden followed by a thorough Earth Juice feeding

I really enjoy this organic gardening. The kids can get in there are help with every part of it and I’m not worried about them getting sick. I remember when I used Round Up in one of our rentals. It was a 4 bedroom manufactured house on a 5 acre ranch…I wasn’t up on all the latest and greatest with weeding and got the chemicals. The entire house had a 1 food rock/pebble border with a few small bushes here and there and the weeds were popping up like mad. Hours after I sprayed, we were all sick. I thought dad was going to die…he got really sick. But we were so dumb we didn’t connect it until later. It’s the only time I’ve used chemicals and never will again. Aiden, my 4 year old, loves to spray the Earth Juice on the plants and I’m glad I can let him.