Nov 16
Share the love Image source Have you experienced the joys of spending a teenie weenie, itsy bitsy amount of time here and there on Pinterest? (Did I just hear a chuckle?) I’m a newbie Pinterest enthusiast/addict and I had no idea how enjoyable “pinning” can be! Sure, Pinterest can be a time sucker, but a time …
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Nov 10
Share the love Now that the temperatures are starting to drop and a lot of the work has come to a hault in my garden, I’ve turned my attention to attracting feathered critters into my landscape with the use of bird feeders. Birdwatching may sound mundane and boring but once you start attracting birds into your …
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Oct 26
Share the love As I type it is still dark outside and the thermometer is reading 27°F. Today my compost heap is going to get an extremely large addition of plants that were frozen overnight. Before the frost hit I dug up and repotted some herbs and brought them indoors, did one last final harvest of green …
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Oct 13
Share the love I used to be discourage with all the green tomatoes I had on my hands as soon as Fall hit and because of that frustration all my green tomatoes ended up in the compost heap. Yes, I was composting perfectly good tomatoes that would have been ideal for many dishes that call for …
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Oct 10
Share the love Happy Fall everyone! I have something very exciting to share with my readers. I grew potatoes for the first time this year and am happy to announce I just made my first harvest of beautiful red potatoes! If you have grown potatoes before you know that there is nothing more captivating then scraping the soil …
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