Since my garden got baked to death this summer during our drought, I thought I’d play it safe and plant something portable…you know in pots, that could be moved in or out according to our crazy weather here. After reading Jamie Oliver’s cookbook and his motivating me to patio garden, it seems, you can just plant it in pots, coffee cans, or even a burlap bag and cut it and it will just keep growing back!
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Continue ReadingSo far, my Oklahoma tomato plants have been free of *pests *hail *tornadoes
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Continue ReadingThere are certain herbs I’ve learned not to put in my flower beds and so I stick them into pots to contain them. A few of these are mint.
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Continue ReadingA few weeks back my friend Kristy from one of my favorite places – t, an urban teahouse sent out a Tweet on Twitter that she had tea leaves for composting for anyone who needed them. If you don’t know, composting is nature’s way of recycling organic material back into the soil, enriching it as it breaks down. My grandpa used to compost in a large crate in his backyard at our cabin in Michigan. He’d toss in all kinds of fruit peels, vegetable scraps, leaves and even used coffee grounds.
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Continue ReadingI adore lilacs. They are up there with tulips, peonies and begonias as some of my favorite flowers. My parents’ yard in Michigan was bordered with them when I was growing up and I use to love the smell of them breezing through the open windows. Sometimes I would cut them and put them in a vase and put them on my windowsill to intensify the smell.
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Continue ReadingAfter checking out sources about growing lemongrass from seed, I decided to look most of the said was easiest to do – root it myself.
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