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Composting With Spent Tea Leaves
A few weeks back my friend Kristy from one of my favorite places – t, an urban teahouse sent out a Tweet on Twitter that she had tea leaves for composting for anyone who needed them. If you don’t...
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Pretty and Functional Too! Herb Centerpieces
There are certain herbs I’ve learned not to put in my flower beds and so I stick them into pots to contain them. A few of these are mint. I tried planting Lobelia around this mint…I can NEVER get...
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I Love Lilies
I am currently obsessed with Lilies. I planted 5 new varieties this year and I have absolutely adored watching them bloom. They are sweet, bright spots of color splashed throughout my flowerbeds. I am...
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Glory Be! A Tomato!
So far, my Oklahoma tomato plants have been free of *pests *hail *tornadoes This is something to be happy about I tell ya.. I cannot tell you how excited I am to harvest my first glorious tomato. Did I...
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Nasturtium the Edible Flower
Would you eat a flower? Really would you? I consider myself a pretty major foodie, and the two items that I am going to try this year - #1 Stuffed Squash blossoms #2 Nasturtiums Nasturiums are in the...
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Lettuce Grow Patio Lettuce
Since my garden got baked to death this summer during our drought, I thought I’d play it safe and plant something portable…you know in pots, that could be moved in or out according to our crazy weather...
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My Garden Diary 2012 – April
Well, let me just say, after my first year of planting heirlooms, I fell in love with their rich fruity flavors. I have no idea HOW I got them to grow that year, but I did. I planted those little...
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My Garden Diary June 2012
Here are a few of my flowers I’ve enjoyed at the beginning of this summer…. I will always love a simple red geranium in a terra cotta pot. Here is my Dad, enjoying the scenery a few weeks back.....
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Garden Gadgets – Flexible Garden Tie
My daughter Kayla bought me three packages of this wonderful stuff for Mother’s Day from Target. I think it was a buck a package. It’s flexible Garden Tie – kind of a rubberized wire to use for staking...
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Cool Weather Gardening
After the last two disatrous years in summer gardening, I decided to try my hand at spring and cool weather gardening with things like beets, lettuce, swiss chard and spinach. Here in Oklahoma, 105º...
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My Garden Diary August 2013
My garden has done exceedingly well this summer thanks to some unusually cool mid and late summer temperatures. After great success with my early spring and summer gardening and a wonderful and...
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Bringing Bees to Your Garden
I am not even CLOSE to being a Master Gardener. Hey, if I even get a few tomatoes or zucchini each year, I’m pretty pleased. With all the talk about the shortage of bees and such around here as of...
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My Little Greenhouse
Last weekend some friends came over to help Mr. Wonderful put up the base on a new greenhouse he bought me. He had purchased it a couple weekends back – it looked fairly simple and while I was super...
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My Little Greenhouse – Part Two
Here are a few new things Mr. Wonderful has done in the greenhous. (Read My Little Greenhouse Part I here) There is a pegboard for my gardening tools at the end. I don’t need to dig through the shed...
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Heat, Herbs and Weekend Gardening Confusion
This weekend left me utterly confused gardening friends. I woke up Saturday morning at 6:45 and stepped outside to walk down the stone path with my little doggies Bubba and Max. Brrrrr!!! I had to go...
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Simple Salad Garden in a Container
Good lord, I love to make salads but those giant boxes of beautiful greens you buy at the store can get quite expensive. Maybe you don’t want to fuss over a big messy garden or maybe you live in an...
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My Little Greenhouse – Some Thoughts on Learning
And so it begins…. It’s time for planting! Last weekend, I spent some time planting some (mostly) cool weather plants in the greenhouse. It caused me to reflect on what I’ve learned this year. #1 I...
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My Garden Diary 2012 – April
Well, let me just say, after my first year of planting heirlooms, I fell in love with their rich fruity flavors. I have no idea HOW I got them to grow that year, but I did. I planted those little...
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Gardening …and Snow
Welcome again to unpredictable Oklahoma weather. Two weekends ago, Mr. Wonderful and I spent all Saturday in the yard. He made a pretty need DIY composter for us. The trash can has a hole cut in the...
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My Garden Diary April 2015
I woke this morning and stretched lazily. For some reason I really had a hard time opening my eyes. As my senses came into focus, I realized why. The soft patter of rain on the skylight in our room...
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