Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day! April 2009
Carol, over at May Dreams Gardens, started the Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. I am now looking forward to this as one of my favorite days of the month! It is kind of like a virtual garden tour. You can go around to all of the garden blogs and see what is blooming in your friends’ gardens all over the world! Another good thing about bloom day: It is always the 15th of the …
Gardening Tips for my Friend
I am hoping to be in good enough shape-physically and economically-this fall to have Nancy teach me how to surf. In the meantime, she said she has been reading the blog for gardening tips, so I told her I would write one in her honor today. I am not exactly …
Strange St. Patrick’s Day Tradition
So, this will make my fourth blog post in as many days. However, I feel inspired to share with you a particularly strange family tradition for St. Patrick’s day. This is a short one, but a good one.
Every year, the night before St. Patrick’s Day, my Mom would take us to the grocery to select ghastly dyed green carnations to give to our teachers the next …
Gardener’s Bloom Day: March 15
There is a Meme (a blogging theme) for Gardener’s Bloom Day. It is always the 15th of the month. I am not sure who started it or why. (UPDATE: MAY DREAMS GARDENS STARTED THIS, OR AT LEAST ORGANIZES IT. VISIT HERE) However, I always enjoy seeing everyone else’s blooms. I am never organized enough to write a bloom day post of my own. There’s a lot in bloom in my garden right now, …
MY SEEDS ARE SPROUTING!
After worrying, worrying, worrying this week-first it is hot, then it is cold, then it was dry, now it is raining-I have seen my seeds that I planted last week start to sprout! I took pictures so I can show off my “babies” to my loyal readers. (Shout out to Susan and Natalie, my Mother-in-Law and best friend from College) Actually, more than two of you read. I am just trying to aggravate Chris! Yes, …
Tips for Organic Gardening Newbies
On twitter this morning, one of the people I “follow” said something intriguing about the push for a Victory Garden on the White House lawn. He said that he was worried that the current initiative for Victory Gardens 2.0 will end up causing lots of problems with herbicide/pesticide and fertilizer overuse because people don’t undertsand organic gardening, or even, well, gardening! I hadn’t really thought about …
Pre-Treating Your Seeds before Planting
In the world of organic gardening, the question of pre-treating seeds is answered differently than in the world of conventional gardening. If you buy conventional seeds from a garden center or mail order catalogue, certain seeds that are susceptible to damping off or fungal diseases will be treated with a fungicide. Some seeds that are very tiny will come “pelleted,” or encapsulated in an outer coating …
What is a Seed?
I’ve been beatin’ y’all over the head re: it’s time to plant your seeds. Do you even know what a seed is? You probably remember being in first grade when the teacher gave each student a bean seed, a cup and a paper towel. You put the towel in the inside of the cup, and then put the bean seed between the cup and the towel, and wet the towel. Then you watched the seed …
Companion Planting
Have you seen that book “Carrots Love Tomatoes?” Chris is reading it. I think it is about companion planting. Even if it isn’t, that is what we are talking about today! How growing plants from different plant families can help you, the organic gardener, have an easier time successfully growing your …
Beefing up the Winter Garden
Last week, I thought about how I can make my garden a little more interesting in the winter. The picture in the last post is highly unusual. We do not normally have snow at all-not even a few flakes. That means we have a very long winter without much snow and lots of brown and dormant lawns. If I get organized in time for next winter, I will be planting more of these plants to …
