#garden-journal

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The last two months have seen hundreds of beautiful flowers and now some of those blossoms are going to seed. My job, as the caretaker of this little plot, is to harvest seeds to plant next summer. I have

We never liked it. Gardening. I think I only ever imagined there to be a word like gardening addict because of my Mom. From my six year old perspective, I didn’t understand why anyone would spend dawn

What marks the changing of seasons? The equinoxes & soltices? Or the cues from nature that something has shifted? For me - I feel that spring is coming soon once the stone fruit trees are in bloom.

Aloe vera or aloe vera is an ancient plant known for its goodness and benefits for the whole organism, especially, its use is concentrated in its powers to regenerate and heal tissues, as well as to help

Hellow, hivers and garden lovers! It's technically spring here where I live, but it's not very warm yet. The snow cover finally melted, so I can at least see my garden now. We had a warm spell last week,

Hello hivers and garden lovers! It's the last week of January as I write this, and almost halfway through winter, according to the calendar. I believe that 5 days from now will be halfway between winter

Pilea peperomioides, known as the Chinese money plant, UFO plant or pancake plant . The chinese money plant is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family Urticaceae, native to southern China. Originally

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! It took me about a week to harvest my carrots this year, the weather was not very cooperative. I knew I was running out of time to get the carrots pulled out before the

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! As my followers know, I grow potatoes at the local community garden. The reason why I prefer to grow potatoes there rather than in my home garden is because the soil at

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! In my previous post, I talked about shredding leaves for garden mulch. That is an on-going project right now, but there are other things that also need to get done before

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! We finally got some decent weather again after a week of cold and wet weather that I had no interest in going out into. A couple of days ago, it was cold and windy, but

The front of the house is the most popular place for a garden in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Many people have used it for their vegetable gardens, as tomato and pepper plants are generally easier to grow than

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! I was going to wait to write this post until I had more pictures, but my progress on this project has been on hold for the past few days due to bad weather. It rained for

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! Last weekend, I decided to start the annual end of season cleanup in the greenhouse. The tomato plants were first on the list because they're done producing tomatoes. As

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! I finally started digging up the rows of potatoes in my garden plots at the local community garden. I planted 15 rows of potatoes last spring, each row being about 10 feet

Hello, hivers and garden lovers! It's been almost 2 months since my last garden post, I guess I'm way overdue for writing about my garden. This definitely falls into the category of "shit happens".

Hello, hivers and gardeners! This post is just a picture update of my home garden for the end of July. Everything seems to be growing pretty well right now. We've had a reasonable amount of rainy days,

Hello, hivers and gardeners A few days ago, I wrote a post about my community garden plots, so today, I'm going to write about the progress of my garden at home. I'm growing my tomatoes, beans, and summer