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Continue reading →: February 2016 UpdateThis month has been a little crazy. My grandpa turned 85 on the 8th! I got a long weekend away from work and was able to finally make it back home to visit everyone. I haven’t been able to do that for over a year and a half, so…
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Continue reading →: How to Start Gardening – Picking Seeds (Bean edition)A few weeks ago, I posted a “How to Start Gardening” post. I wanted it to be an inspiring way to just start gardening if you never have. You don’t need a huge plot of land to start. We all WANT it, but you don’t NEED it. And if…
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Continue reading →: Clematis Dreams.I think, this year, that I will try and grow clematis. This has been a garden dream I adopted from my mom. She has always wanted beautiful clematis trailing up the side of the house, and has never been able to have it. She has green thumbs somewhere, but no…
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Continue reading →: Sprouting Seeds (Alfalfa Sprouts)Part of the problem of having a garden full of vegetables in the summer is having to buy fresh vegetables in the winter. They are never as good, and spending money on vegetables seems wrong after a summer of free fresh veggies. To help fill in the gaps of fresh…
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Continue reading →: Update on the Cactus ExperimentBack at the beginning of January when I started to really get the gardening itch, I sowed a “Novelty Mix” of Cactus seeds that I had picked up a while ago. I really didn’t expect much. I didn’t put them in a sandy soil like the package said, just regular…


