Category: garden
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garden dinner party!
It’s no secret that I like a good party. I especially like to throw a good party. It involves lots of my favorite things: food, drinks, shiny things and my friends. I am also a Leo. I am bossy and a control freak about certain things. When it came time to decide what to do…
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picklelicious
Thanks to Darrin and Amanda, I found myself in possession of a Mezza Luna Farms box of veggies last week. Among the goodies was a pickling cucumber and a GIGANTIC Japanese cucumber. I do not exaggerate. Clearly, something had to be done. Something of the briny variety. I used Ted Allen’s Refrigerator Pickle brine times…
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2013 planty goodness
Yep, March is around the corner, if you can believe that, so it’s time for this year’s installment of Where-The-Plant-Sales-Are. First up is the Seattle Tilth Early Edible Sale, on March 16th. A new location this year, it’s being held at the Pacific Market Center Parking Garage, which seems to be somewhere in the Stadium…
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outter january
Maybe it’s because we’ve had no snow this year, and only brief spells of really cold weather, but for some reason it seems like spring is just around the corner. The green things in the yard seem confused as well. I am excited for days where we can tire ourselves digging and planting, feeling the…
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mid may 2012 garden pretties
I took a little tour of the “garden” yesterday. The Geek has been ON FIRE with cleaning up the front! We’ve had some wacky weather of late – cold, a few days of really hot, and back to coldish. I am sure the plants have no idea what to make of it. I played around…
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2012 planty goodness
Yep, that time of year again, the current view out my window of torrential rain notwithstanding. Here’s the Spring 2012 Plant Sale Roundup. Early Bloomers April 14 This is a smaller sale in the Arboretum with lots of interesting things. Recommended. Seattle Tilth Early Edibles March 17 For those of you who are actually ready…
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pinteresting
It’s sweeping the nation, nay, the world, you know. This Pinterest thing. I know some of you already are on board. “On board” – ha, that’s funny. It’s basically a visual way to collect your favorite things online – a virtual bulletin board. Any time you see a photo of something, you “pin” it to…
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finally
When we bought our house 4 years ago, there was a funny little section right in front of the living room window. It looked like this: It seemed like a real waste of space. I always pictured it being a nice place to sit since it faces west and gets some good sun. It has…
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better late than never
Ah, my poppets, I have been a bit out of pocket the last week, fighting some bug. Got some good drugs now so I’m on the mend. In between my getting sick and well, it seems spring has finally arrived in these parts! So half the peas got their trellis today and the strawberries now…
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baby spring
Better weather is creeping in slowly this year. We are way behind the garden progress of this year. Oddly, the weeds seem to be right on schedule. Farmer Fels graciously gave me some Marshall strawberries he rescued from the Herbfarm farm he works at. They are hard to come by now. Hoping I don’t kill…
foible and folly 