Growing awareness of pressure on natural resources and carbon emissions many people are opting to grow some of their own food and is the main reason I started our vegetable garden. What growing one’s own vegetables does is give you some control over the quality of your food, while lowering carbon emissions (through less transporting of goods). It also gives the satisfaction that you’re growing some of what you’re eating. It sounds very satisfying, doesn’t it? Perhaps you are wondering {Read More}
My garden
May 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Guess what if I haven’t told you all yet I hate garden’s. “sigh” As I have previously posted my husband and I started a garden I was thinking yea we can do this and then we can have diced tomatoes and salsa all the time. LMFAO I was mistaken. So here is my horror stories of our garden. First we got everything ready and I had to rake all the grass out of our tilled area. I thought I was {Read More}
What I got for Mother’s Day
May 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As some of you know we recently had to get a new car so we are strapped for cash right now. I don’t like my family buying me things for Mother’s Day. Does that sound crazy? Well not to me I would rather me buy something I know I will use. Does that sound selfish? I hope it don’t I hardly ever buy things for just me. Well recently we planted a garden and half of the garden was drowned {Read More}
Our Garden
April 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Well I just went out and checked on the garden. I really didn’t think it was gonna go any where. This is our first garden so that could be why I was freaked. Well we have sprouts. We planted April 23rd. and we have squash, watermelon, pumpkins, and onions sprouting all ready. There maybe more sprouts but those are the ones I see. So as soon as they are going good I can go weed them. I am so excited {Read More}
Garden
April 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Well I talked my dear husband into helping me do a garden. Let me tell you talk about work. It took us about 4 hours in all. We planted tomatoes, carrots, 2 different kinds of hot peppers, 2 different kinds of bell peppers, cucumbers, yellow squash, onions, watermelons, pumpkins, thyme, cilantro, and rosemary. I would have loved to planted more, but we didn’t have much room and I wanted the basics for canning. Gardening is so much work but the {Read More}
