I’m sorry to say we’ve neglected our garden a bit this year, but it seems to be doing pretty well anyway. We’re growing lavender, lettuce, carrots, radishes, onions, garlic, beans, and apparently potatoes (they seem to be popping up from last year’s plants).
Last night I picked some lettuce for a salad for dinner and harvested the radishes. Turns out that either I don’t like radishes or they weren’t ready to pick… yuck. But the lettuce ...
Over the weekend I was able to take advantage of the weather and get out in the garden to do some MUCH belated weeding and give everything a nice drink of water. Being the blogger I am, I was also down with my nose to the dirt trying to get some good photos for you. I’m sure our neighbors think I’m nuts.
This year we chose a few starts at the store – garlic and onions, ...
Last year Ryan and I had so much fun planning our garden. From building the beds to planting and harvesting, there was always something to learn and something to get excited about.
We can’t wait to tackle the garden this year (actually, we can…. we’re planning to hit the ground running NEXT weekend!). Since the large expense of the beds, dirt, and amendments was covered last year, this year we have a little budget left for ...
We’ve begun our garden plans for the year and I’m trying to be patient and not get started too early.
In the meantime, I’m re-reading a few of my favorite garden-themed books to get in the spirit, and adding new favorites. Here are some of my stand-bys:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
The Secret Garden
Second Nature; A Gardener’s Education
What’s your favorite way to get ready for spring? Are you hoping to have a garden this year? Read our garden adventures ...
It’s been a while since a garden update! After a bountiful summer, it was finally time to turn down the beds for fall.
Now, Washington has a mild enough fall that we could have replanted for a fall harvest, but we decided not to this year. Instead, we tore out all the dying plants (some came out as early as August) and we took down the poles from the snap pea trellis. Those two little bushes ...
Read an awesome story in the New York Times about the growing popularity of floral arranging, especially for young women.
I get my love of bouquets and flower arranging from my dad and his sisters – they all have a wonderful knack for it that I hope is hereditary!
I loved reading about the new “loose” technique of arrangements – the author likened these modern displays as the perfect undone-bun with a few wispy strands of hair. ...
This is my favorite part of gardening – when the updates involve recipes!
Our sugar snap peas have been producing a ton, so we’ve had a few nights with just regular steamed peas. But the other night I came home to this: pork chops and sugar snap peas with a mint julep glaze. I love having a man who cooks.
It smelled so good when I walked in the house, and it was very tasty too. Fresh ...
A guest post by Ryan.
Shortly after Maggie and I built the garden beds in our back yard, we knew we needed to do something about the space in-between the beds, a patch of dirt that was about 2 feet by 3 feet. Our first thought was the lay a little brick path, but between the springtime rain and other household projects to distract us, it wasn’t until recently that I got around to starting ...
On the same trip to World Market as the shower curtain purchase, we also picked up this sweet little recipe box:
But we didn’t have recipes burning a hole in our pocket, waiting to be copied down letter by letter onto the little cards. Oh no, we were more drawn to the cute little pea/radish/onion motif for a more, er, organic reason…
Seed storage!
We had a few random packets still hanging around that didn’t get planted this ...
It’s been about a month since I gave you a garden update and my-oh-my has it been a productive one! Look at how lush it is getting!
That’s our lavender peeking up at the bottom, followed by lettuce, red lettuce, mixed greens (yowza, they really took off!), spinich, and nasturtiums (which you can’t see very well because they were our seed starts and are still pretty little).
In fact, tonight we had our first leafy salad from ...
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