My son is nearly two and a half now and finding tasks he can do in the garden without doing damage can sometimes be a challenge. See the great “Seed Mishap of 2007″ for details on that front. But when I found an old-fashioned strawberry jar at Wal-Mart I knew this was something we could…
Category Archives: Edible Gardening
Inexpensive Container Herb Garden
Last week I was able to pick up several 4″ pots of herbs from a local inexpensive garden nursery – it is a sweet old lady who, I think, starts most of the herbs and plants herself. Lovely plants at fabulous prices. What herbs did I get? Cilantro – a must for homemade salsa Parsley…
Tomatoes, Onions and other Oklahoma Veges
I planted asparagus last year. It’s doing marvelously and provided us with two dinner’s worth of spears this spring – I anticipate more next year! My mother-in-law told me those are “weird vegetables for Oklahoma”. *laughing* I guess because I didn’t want to plant okra? I HATE okra. So this year I planted a lot…
Home cooked food – no comparison
So last year about this time I posted a blog on Suite101 talking about building a perennial vegetable garden bed. I’m not sure why, but not a single strawberry plant made it – perhaps bad stock since I purchased all at the same place? My asparagus however did very well and is already coming out,…
Stawberry Jar Pictures
Here are some recent photos of the Strawberry Jar my son and I planted. Read the full Strawberry Jar story here and learn how we put it together and how we care for it. In this photo you can see the herb plants we planted in the top of the jar: Sweet Basil and…
Seed plants sprouting, my homemade seed starting setup
By popular demand I am posting pictures not only of my homemade seed sprouting set-up but also of the plants themselves which have survived the great Evan mishap rather well now. Everything is sprouting again and I emptied a seed packet for the first time in my life – it took all my broccoli seeds to…
The Seed Situation
I recently started some cool weather seeds indoors; broccoli, two type of lettuce (bibb and mesclun), mustard and pansy flowers. They were doing really well, this week the pansies finally sprouted so everything was up! Hurray! And then…. Evan happened. I caught him “in the act” so my darling little mischevious two year old son…
Monsanto buying Burpee?
This is the rumor that was flying about. The word on the street is that Seminis, Inc. which was purchased by Monsanto last year, had bought out Burpees. Here is the truth. Angela <><
