What’s Happening In the Garden– September 30
Hey everyone! It looks like I’m a one post a week blogger at the moment. It’s fall and I’m all over the place…I know I keep saying that life is busy, but, really, it is. To add to it Halloween in Salem...
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This… will become this. And this… will become this. It will only take seven months and one day to happen. But who’s counting? Enjoy Everything! MicheleFiled under: Fall in New England, gardening...
View ArticleMotorcycle Parades, Herb Freezing Time and Spiders
Life here in Salem, Massachusetts is so much fun and so crazy right now. Yesterday we enjoyed one of my favorite Halloween activities, the annual Motorcycle Ride for Muscular Dystrophy. Really, where...
View ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day-October 2013
Here’s my very late in the day, just under the wire Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day post! I started it at 6:30 this morning (when it was technically too dark to take photos) and I was so close to finishing...
View ArticleGrowing a Greener World Episode: Garden with Margaret Roach
Here’s the link to a wonderful episode of Growing a Greener World, a national gardening series on PBS, featuring one of my favorite garden bloggers, Margaret Roach. It was so much fun to see Margaret’s...
View ArticleThe First Annual Salem Garden Holiday Wish List
It’s the holiday season and that means it’s time to find a gift for your favorite gardener. There are so many choices and ideas everywhere you look, from your local garden center to millions of places...
View ArticlePinterest Gardening
In the middle of winter when it’s snowy and cold and spring seems a very long time away I Pinterest garden. I love Pinterest but not in a “check out what other people pin and re-pin it” way. Not that I...
View ArticleSix Months
August 6, 2013 Today, February 6, 2014 That’s all I have to say. MicheleFiled under: gardening, winter Tagged: February, gardening, Salem Massachusetts, winter
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden– April 7, 2014
What’s happening? Well there’s a little bit of spring out there. It may not be as much as we’re used to at this point in April, but it’s coming along. Yesterday I dug up the very end of a bed and...
View ArticleSquare Foot Onions, and a Hint of Rhubarb
Recently these beautiful onions that my friend Betsey has stored in her basement inspired me to get serious about planting my own. Please pardon the quality of this photo which I took with my very...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden- April 25, 2014
I’m working on a million little projects this morning but I’m well behind here in the blogosphere so before I move on I must do a quick garden update. I don’t know what it is about my blogging hobby...
View ArticleA Few Thoughts About Growing Tomatoes From Seed
I’ve really gotten in to starting seeds this year. I have three varieties of tomatoes growing (Rutgers, Matina and Supersweet 100) and I think it’s safe to say that their doing quite well. I spent a...
View ArticleFoolproof Cucumber Seedlings- You Can Grow That!
The other day I blogged about the fun I’ve had this year with growing tomatoes. I’ve been in kind of the same mode with cucumbers (and pumpkins, and squash, and peppers, and several varieties of...
View ArticleGlowing White Garden
Last night after our lovely Mother’s Day dinner in the garden, our first this year, we played a little bit of soccer. I’m an absolutely wonderful player and I really think that the reason my team won...
View ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day-May 2014
Happy GBBD-May 2014! I haven’t looked at last May’s Bloom Day post but my worry is that it’s very similar to this year’s. Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day is making me think about adding new plants and...
View ArticleLoving My Seedlings, a Lot!
I really am! This appears to be my breakthrough year in the seed starting world. I think I got it and I love it! The time that I spent this winter reading and researching really seems to be paying off....
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden-June 9-And Then There Were Two
So, there’s good news and bad news around here. I’ll start with the bad news first and get it over with. It’s actually really bad, as in, “a coyote killed four of our baby chicks in a few minutes”...
View ArticleThings Are Shaping Up Around Here…
Happy First Day of Summer! Hope you were out in a garden today (and had as much fun as I did)! Love, MicheleFiled under: gardening, summer Tagged: First Day of Summer, garden, gardening, Salem...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening In the Garden- July 2, 2014
Good Morning and Happy July! We left for a camping trip last Thursday (our last day of school was Wednesday) and came back to the work, garden, home and the new summer routine first thing Monday...
View ArticleGrandma’s Garden in Delaware-2014
A few years ago I blogged about my mother-in-law’s beautiful garden. We don’t get to Delaware every year and it’s always a treat to get out of the car after our long journey and step into the garden....
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