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 …
Tag Archive: gardening
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/11/16/pinterest-wednesday/
Nov 10
Cold Weather Bird Food Recipes and the Woodpecker
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/11/10/my-woodpecker-and-cold-weather-bird-food-recipes/
Oct 26
Hello Frost, Goodbye Veggies
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/10/26/hello-frost-goodbye-veggies/
Oct 13
Green Tomato Chutney and Fresh Peach Sauce
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/10/13/green-tomato-chutney-and-fresh-peach-sauce/
Oct 10
My First Potato Harvest and Potato Leek Soup
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 …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/10/10/my-first-potato-harvest-and-potato-leek-soup/
Aug 23
The Dirt and Martinis Junky Garden
Share the love Not junky bad, but junky good! I realize it is appalling for some people to use junk in the garden but not to me. Most of my garden “art” is aged, rusty, and weird but in my eyes it’s interesting to look at and the BEST part- most of it was free! I admit …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/08/23/the-dirt-and-martinis-junky-garden/
Aug 22
J. Peterson Garden Design and 3 Summer Cocktails
Share the love I recently shared some cool and refreshing summer cocktail recipes over at the inspiring J. Peterson Garden Design blog and wanted to make sure you didn’t miss these 3 mouth watering recipes. But first, I want to introduce you to the lovely Jenny Peterson, owner of J. Peterson Garden Design in Austin Texas. …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/08/22/3-cool-cocktails-to-beat-the-summer-sizzle/
Jul 28
Got Junk? Don’t Throw it out…Plant It!
Share the love This post originally appeared on the #gardenchat blog. You can follow #gardenchat on Twitter and on Facebook. Reduce, reuse, recycle are words we hear everyday and sometimes several times a day. Specifically in the area of reuse, gardeners all around the world, from all walks of life and economic status have taken …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/07/28/got-junk-dont-throw-it-out-plant-it/
Jun 11
Growing Green with Authentic Haven Brand Manure Tea
Share the love Authentic Haven Brand Manure Tea is what I am going to be fertilizing my garden with this summer. No more chemicals or synthetically produced fertilizers are going to be used and no more storing or lugging around heavy bags of fertilizer . That’s right, my garden is going green with a little tea …
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/06/11/growing-green-with-authentic-haven-brand-manure-tea/
Jun 09
Flat Tire Decor: Black is the New Green
Permanent link to this article: http://dirtandmartinis.com/2011/06/09/flat-tire-decor-black-is-the-new-green/