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Seed planting 2009!

Posted in containers, cucumbers, garden planning, herbs, planting, seeds, tomatoes, winter on February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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

Posted in herbs, recipes, winter on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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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Not about gardening

Posted in not about gardening, sewing, winter on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here we are again, wallowing in the throes of winter, and therefore there is not much to say about the garden, which is covered with a couple inches of snow on our balcony.  I’ve got my seed planting dates marked on the calendar and I’m saving up eggshells (more about that in another post, I [...]

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On a snowy day in January…

Posted in not about gardening, winter on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Happy birthday to my husband

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Something to look forward to…

Posted in cucumbers, garden planning, seeds, tomatoes, winter on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today I figured out some planting dates for my tomato and cucumber seeds…  and I only have to wait another 4 or 5 weeks to plant!  I’m really looking forward to spring

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Some late Halloween costume pics, just for fun

Posted in costume, not about gardening, sewing, strawberries, winter on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It’s getting pretty cold here in the midwest, and there’s not much going on in the garden (I’ll post later this week, hopefully, about completing the winterization process for the garden this year… I’m going to try and keep the strawberries for next year…).  I felt like posting something silly, so here are some photos [...]

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Preparing for winter, act 1

Posted in containers, diseases, herbs, peas, potting soil, strawberries, tomatoes, winter, winterizing on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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A project to tide me over…

Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project, winter on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »

While the weather here in the midwest is cold and nasty, I can’t do much with my garden…

But of course, I need some projects to keep me busy until it starts getting warmer. When we visited my family over the holidays, my mom gave me two lengths of vintage silk that she had had [...]

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