I like naming areas of our yard. We have our Serenity Garden, deep in the trees, with a cement bench, for silent reflection. There is the Fairy Forest, the Shade Garden, and our veggie garden is named The Dragonfly Garden, in honor of the dragonfiles that like to frolic in it and as a semi-tribute…
Author: tjwise1954
Planting the Potato Boxes
After dinner everyone was out in the garden ready to plant the potato seeds. We got 2 varieties from Big Acre. Yukon Gold and Red Nuggets. Fairy and Pixie were all about helping. The girls, especially Fairy, are born gardeners, Bug… not so much so! He looked in on what we were doing but used…
Terracotta plant markers
Rachel, at One Pretty Thing, featured some lovely plant markers the other day made by Kelly over at Purple Lemon Designs. She had a great tutorial on how to make them so check it out. I must admit we broke a couple new terracotta pots, but from now on I will save all my broken pots. I also did…
Potato Boxes
Tim and I spent most of the day outside. It was a lovely, sunny day. Temps reached the mid 60s. I started cleaning some of the beds while Tim built the potato boxes I found via One Pretty Thing which she found at Re-Nest which they got from the Seatle Times! Don’t you just love…
First Pics of the Garden April 17, 2009
It’s always fun to watch your garden change from last year’s debris to this year’s lush vegetations. Here are the first pics of the season.