Collard Greens You all know that I am gardening obsessed. Okay, lets put the cards on the table. A gardening nut. My plants are just like children to me. I worry when they wilt. Bite my nails when they turn yellow. And become outraged when they are hopelessly attacked by beetles. Do you feel the same [...]
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It is Spring! I feel like Gene Kelly as he dances in Singing in the Rain. You know. I love to garden. Whose else has 21 beds, 9 heirloom apple trees, 2 peach trees, raspberry and blueberry bushes, and tons of herbs if they aren’t obsessed? (Check out a glimpse of my garden with
This is my fifth season of growing my own food, and believe me, it never gets old. Once you taste a ripe tomato from the vine, you never go back. I grow everything from seed. Believe me, it is not intimidating at all. In fact, it is down right fun especially for your [...]
Welcome, guest poster, Jean Nick of Nickel Pincher. She has given me a laundry list of her favorite green living hacks sure to save money and the environment. You go, Jean! I adore her advice! So will you. Solutions that are both eco-logical and eco-nomical are my specialty. Buying “Green” is my last choice, not [...]
Calling all gardeners! Gardener’s Supply Company is having their summer sale! This is the time to stock up, Geeps. (Short for gardening people. Do you think it will catch on?) Many of my loyal readers know that I absolutely love Gardener’s Supply. In the Spring, I listed my favorites from Gardener’s Supply and gushed above how [...]
Spring is here and I am giddy about the prospects of growing my garden again. Each year is different from the last one with new plants to grow. Some have even come back since I forgot about them from last year. See my turnip left in the dirt since last Fall? And if you are [...]
Spring is just around the corner. Thinking of planting an organic garden this year but wishing you could just buy organic seedlings in lieu of growing from seed? Many of my loyal readers know that I grow my plants from seed. But I have in the past grown my vegetables from organic seedlings that I [...]
This year I am determined to create my first vegetable garden. I am a newbie when it comes to growing vegetables. So, I thought I would start off easy and grow tomatoes, blueberries, cauliflower, and peppers. (Yeah, so much for starting off with a very simple garden!) My organic heirloom tomatoes seedlings came from California because I was [...]









