Isn’t Pinterest just the best? So many ideas! So many pretty pictures! So many great tips! Except, um, when the tips aren’t really tips at all. There are some hilarious blogs that feature Pinterest tips gone wrong and sometimes it’s because people just don’t have the crafting/cooking skill of the person who originally created the tip/recipe/craft to begin with. But ...
A happy Friday to you all! There is indeed reason to be joyous this Friday. The painters were to come this morning to finish up a few last touch ups on the cabinets which means that I will spend a good part of the weekend organizing what I can while we wait for drawer fronts and cabinet doors. I can’t ...
I have been debating expanding my vegetable gardening space. Again. It’s funny how gardening works. You start with a garden of a certain size and you can’t imagine ever needing more space. Until you do. And then you add another garden or make the first one bigger and you think, “Well now I’m set for life.” Until you’re not. The ...
First of all, if you’re finding this blog from Young House Love, welcome! I’m thrilled you popped over to see the blog and I hope you enjoy it. I tend to jump around topic-wise, ranging from renovations (currently we’re working on our kitchen) to gardening to DIY projects. If you like what you see, you might want to consider getting ...
I hate to leave you hanging on garden posts while I’m stuck in kitchen renovation land. Plenty of the country also got a thick blanket of snow recently so I think we’re all a bit fed up with spring’s punctuality problem. It snowed at our house a bit over the weekend too so I didn’t exactly get my garden chores ...
Since it seems like so many people are dealing with less-than-stellar spring weather, I’m making a concerted effort not to spend too much time complaining about it. So instead of mentioning that there is still a 5-foot tall pile of snow in my yard, or that I’m behind on pruning things because I can’t get through the snow to actually ...
I was shuffling through Google Reader* this morning checking on all my favorite blogs (the iPad and a cup of coffee in bed are pretty much the best accompaniments to blog reading) and one of my favorite design blogs was talking about gardening. I love when that happens. This great designer (who shall remain nameless) is making a garden for ...
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I have some great posts from the Proven Winners Outdoor Living Extravaganza in the works, but I ran off to Texas to go sailing and didn’t have time to finish them like I thought I would. And now I’m laid low with some sort of epic illness. Anyway, here’s my luck for you … it […]
W hen I saw that the senior associate garden editor of Martha Stewart Living Magazine was on the slate of speakers for the Proven Winners Outdoor Living Extravaganza that I went to last weekend, I’ll admit I had a preconceived idea of what Stacey Hirvela was going to be like: prim, proper and, well, very […]
T hat is how pathetic my French language skills are. I’ve been wanting to post for a couple days and could not figure out how to say anything catchy in French. I’ve finally given up trying. Anyway, I was in Marseille on business for two and a half days last week. Unfortunately about 20 hours […]
F or almost five years now I’ve been an almost entirely organic gardener. The caveat is there because I keep a bottle of Roundup in the garage for particularly offensive weeds that seem immune to the more friendly ways of deals with their demise. No more. The Roundup is going away (through my county’s hazardous […]
Spring really is right around the corner, well that’s what people tell me anyway. It doesn’t feel a lot like spring since I’m looking out on a foot of snow covering everything, but I know things start warming up quickly. Next weekend, though, is going to feel a LOT like spring, because I’m heading off […]
W ith the table finally the right length (but not yet finished), it was time to turn my attention to the area on the other side of the door, aka, the dumping ground. As I’ve mentioned before, we have no proper entryways into our house and neither door to the outside has a closet within […]
R emember how I got this slightly damaged table for a great deal at the Restoration Hardware outlet? Well, it’s been hanging out in our basement waiting for the kitchen project to get on track. We brought it upstairs and set it up. You might not be able to tell from this picture (ignore […]
A lot of gardeners have been blogging about ordering their seeds lately. Some of them take a strategic approach to the whole thing. Margaret at A Way to Garden orders from about a half-dozen companies. Carol at May Dreams Gardens ordered so many seeds she couldn’t keep track of them. I’m sure both of […]
I t’s official: I am the worst person in the world when it comes to taking “before” pictures. I get halfway through a project and think, “Oh shoot, I should have taken a picture.” So about halfway through I take a photo. Or worse yet, it’s too late and I have to look through all […]
T here’s hope that winter may end after all. I just placed my order with Dixondale Farms for onion starts. I was so happy with their long-day sweet sampler last year that I ordered it again, although this year they’ve changed up some of the varieties they include in it. I’ll miss the Walla Wallas, […]
Is it possible to request your own intervention? Because I need it. Perhaps it has become clear through some of my posts, but I have a tendency to get hung up on things. Like REALLY hung up. Once I set my mind to solving some issue, I become obsessed with it. All free time is […]
I t’s rather shocking that it’s February and I actually have something for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, held on the 15th of the month by Carol at May Dream Gardens. I guess getting a late start on the amaryllis bulbs paid off in at least one respect. (To see the other amaryllis I kept, which […]
The Impatient Gardener needs a bit of inspiration so I’m heading south to find it. And while I have nothing exciting to talk about I just thought it was pretty wild that I can actually do a blog post at cruising altitude thanks to onboard wifi. Crazy stuff. Be prepared though … after a week […]
Y ou may recall that I started the amaryllis bulbs a little late this year (making up for starting them way to early the year before). In mid-December they looked like this: I gave most of them away as Christmas presents. The one (well two, actually) that I gave my mom (in the galvanized container […]
