Garden Fever 2009

I spent some serious time over last long weekend with my nose in seed catalogs. I have high hopes for the garden this year as I do every year. I bought way too many seeds as usual. My favorite seed catalogs are Seeds of Change and Seed Savers Exchange. I try to buy organic and [...]

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Digging in the Dirt

On the garden front, we’ve dug up all of the lead-tainted soil and re-planted the tomatoes and they look like they’ve survived the ordeal. Now we just have too much dirt. Good and bad. What to do with the old dirt? We’re trying to shift things around and make some raised flower beds and we [...]

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Reading notes

I’m well on my way with Moby Dick. I’ve decided that I’m just going to put almost everything aside for the moment and try and finish that up. I’m doing well. I’ve also been reading The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv. I feel like I agree with most of what he’s written [...]

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Green Things

Oh how Spring has sprung. When I got up this morning, I could smell the lilacs from my kitchen table throughout the entire first floor of my house. Lilacs are one of my all time favorite smells and one of the best things about my childhood home. We lived next to a sheet metal factory, [...]

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Reading to Calm the Nerves and Excite Garden Fever

I know I’ve been a little erratic about posting lately, but it never seems that we can come out from under some sickness or other in our house. Oh, and then there’s the teething and crying on my shoulder for 45 minutes just to mix things up. I must say I have new respect for [...]

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And We’re Off…

Well I’ve started the first seeds of the season with a little help from my son G. G basically mixed some water and seed starting mix together and then dumped a whole packet of old bean seeds into his bowl before I got a chance to supervise. So, what I thought was going to keep [...]

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