Busy, busy

Things sure have been busy around here since my last post.  Husband and I had a nice long weekend at GenCon in Indianapolis, I started my new job, I won a blue ribbon and a rosette at the State Fair for one of my sewn projects (more about that in a later post, maybe! [...]

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End-of-July garden

The garden is growing beautifully.  The tomato plants are enormous and have green tomatoes all over them…  the ripening is taking a *long* time for this impatient balcony gardener!  I thought I’d share a few photos that I took on July 31.

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Photo update of the garden

The garden is doing well.  Above is a view of the whole thing…  I took some pictures this afternoon and last Sunday to share…  I’ll let the photos and their captions stand for themselves tonight.

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Thankful Thursday and quick update

Yes, I do realize it’s Friday– but better late than never!
I’m thankful this week that some loose ends for my dissertation work are starting to get tied up.  One last major hurdle and I think I’m set to go to finish my analysis.  And today I officially set my defense date for July 22.  It’s [...]

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Transplantation

I’ve been looking forward to this day all winter long!  I planted out my tomato and herb sprouts that had been growing in Husband’s office.
We trucked them home on Friday after work, and I could hardly wait to start planting them on Saturday.  Here’s the balcony before I started.  You can see that the lettuces [...]

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Would you look at those sprouts?!

I was  pretty sick at the beginning of the week, so it was a nice surprise to find an email from Husband saying that a whole bunch of my seeds had sprouted on Monday!  I didn’t have him take any pictures, but I finally got healthy and went in today to see them for myself.
First, [...]

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More seeds

On Saturday morning, I attended the small-space gardening class at Prairie Gardens.  It was interesting, though having done a lot of reading/research on the subject of container gardening, and having done it for 2 years, not a lot of the information was brand new to me.  But it’s always good to have your facts reinforced.
After [...]

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Seed planting 2009!

Hurray!  The day finally came to plant seeds.  Yesterday I finally sat down and decided what I was going to plant where so that I could start enough seeds.  I think I finally have a plan:
3 pots with Early Girl tomatoes  (directly sow lettuce in this pot, later)
1 pot with Yellow Pear tomatoes (directly sow [...]

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A little taste of summer in February

Last night I got out some of the pesto that I made from our basil last fall.  (I just used the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook’s recipe for pesto.  I froze the batches  in small containers (it freezes beautifully) and I just let it thaw overnight in the fridge when I know that I’m going [...]

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Preparing for winter, act 1

I mentioned in an earlier post that the condo association for our building decided to have the wooden balcony railings, etc. repainted.  They asked all the unit-dwellers to move our stuff so that it wouldn’t be in the way of the painters.  I was pretty sad to chop down most of my garden, but it [...]

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