We were on vacation for 12 days and the first thing we checked when we arrived home was the garden! Everything looked really good thanks to a drip system we installed before we left. The only problem is that the […]
Read the full article →Garden Update: Tomato Battle & Pepper Overload
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Garden Update: Picking Squash, Cucumbers, Peas & Blackberries
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I just returned home from a long weekend away to find a garden full of goodies! Hubby and the boys had picked three cucumbers over the weekend and I picked another three tonight. It looks like we will be eating […]
Read the full article →Perennials: Saving Your Geraniums
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Geraniums are one of my favorite flowers! They evoke childhood memories of our vacations in Greece. These geraniums silently awaited us at my grandparent’s house in Ano Ravenia, a remote, northern village in Greece. They were planted in tin cans […]
Read the full article →Garden Update: First Yellow Squash & Squash Bug Eggs
This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.June 10, 2012
It’s time for my weekly garden update! On the weekends I spend a lot of time in the garden- pulling weeds, looking for bugs, harvesting and just admiring. When I head out to the garden I take certain supplies along. […]
Read the full article →Garden Update: Green Beans & Peas
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We have been picking green beans this week in our garden! We also continue to pick sugar snap peas, herbs and lettuce. I expect to be picking our first yellow squash this week too. Of course just as fast as […]
Read the full article →Garden Update: Bugs and Blooms
This post may contain affiliate links. See my disclosure policy for more details.May 27, 2012
There is nothing more exciting for a vegetable gardener than to see the plants start producing! That means all of the hard work earlier in the Spring is starting to pay off. Of course this excitement is quickly hushed when […]
Read the full article →Growing Pretty Peonies + Peony Pointers
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Peonies are beautiful fragrant flowers that I was never introduced to until a few years ago. My mother loved flowers of every variety but only planted what she could grow in a pot that she could enjoy while running our […]
Read the full article →How to Make a Homemade Compost Bin
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Hubby and I had been talking about making a compost bin for a long time. We didn’t want to spend a lot of money on the bin but wanted something that was enclosed. I did a little research and found […]
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