Sep 12
Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Good news- It would appear that I am growing garlic in a pot! Bad news- Only 2 out of the 3 bulbs sprouted and the 2 that did sprout look like they are barely hanging on. I think the problem my garlic plants were …
Sep 05
I was not successful at growing potatoes indoors and I am not surprised. I cut the potatoes so that they would callus before planting them and I regret doing that because they rotted and I currently have a bunch of rotting potatoes on my window sill. Perhaps I was just thinking that the potato fairy …
Aug 16
So I was reading the other day because I do occasionally do that in my non-existent free time. You know, when I am on the throne and Michael is contained is his gated community. Poor kid. I got this genius idea to try and grow a potato indoors because my green onions and my garlic haven’t …
Aug 04
It’s finally time for the follow up to my post about painting my garlic pot! I love, love, love garlic but I hate paying for it so I am attempting to grow indoors. This is just an experiment but all of the research that I have read online says that it really is possible. Fingers …
Jul 31
I can promise you that there are no vampires in our house with the amount of garlic that we consume. I hate running out of garlic and I really, really hate buying garlic since it is a plant that I should be able to grow myself- right? I guess I could kill it but my …
Jul 29
This Memorial Day weekend we spent 3 days outside wasting time and money trying to beautify our yard. I knew that it would be ugly this year because we bought from the clearance section of Lowe’s and some of our hostas were transplants from Michael’s Mother’s house. I never would have predicted that we would get a …
Jul 13
I mentioned recently that I am on the board of my HOA and we are putting in a community garden so I volunteered to make our garden markers! It might be for selfish reasons but I just might be ready to marry my Painters Paint Pens! The supplies are simple: Spray paint Painters Paint Sticks …
Jul 11
I can’t garden to save my life and I have already told you about my peat pot failure this year. So when I stumbled upon a gardening post that looked idiot proof I wasn’t about to forget it. If I can grow green onions in my house then anyone out there is fully capable of …
Jul 05
I have a lot of lessons to learn in life and one of them just happens to be about gardening. I feel like a moron but what can you do about it now? Michigan had some mind blowing weather in the middle of March this year and all the animals came out of hibernation to …
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