Posted in gardening, garlic, swans, tagged 2 headed swan, baby swan, beautiful sunset, garlic, garlic delivery, gourd books, swans on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While we were away this past weekend I received my garlic delivery and also my gourd books … I love coming home and having packages waiting for me!
I laid out the 4 different garlic for comparison and will be planting these all within the next week or so … it rained all day yesterday so [...]
Posted in Crafts, Dried Flowers, Tomato, garden crafts, gardening, tagged anise hyssop, blue corn, Crafts, fall, gardening, gourds, marigold, saving seed, tomato seed, zinnia on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Fall ya’ll … the summer was wonderful, hot and rainy and then cool and dry – never predictable, but always Summer! Now Fall is upon us and what will it bring? Beautiful colors I am sure and fun material to craft with ..
Although I wasn’t very successful with gourds this year, I will [...]
Posted in Garden pests, Illinois, Nature, Unique plants, country living, gardening, tagged alien, alma paprika peppers, flood weather, garden damage, gardening, mushroom, Nature, polka dotted seedpod, seedpod, tomato hornworm on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The trip home yesterday was quite the experience – 3 hours of downpouring heavy rain that nearly lifted us from the road and swept us away. We are extremely happy to be alive and well and seeing all the flooded areas, it is quite clear we missed some heavy rains all weekend. I believe the [...]
Posted in Food, Unique plants, birds, gardening, swans, tagged baby swans, gardening, marconi peppers, swans, tigger melons, yellow canary on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The baby swans are up front and getting almost as big as the parent. The 2 birds in the background are ducks.
Now this next guy is not as huge as the swans but he sure has some great color – a yellow canary came visiting the bird feeder!
Some great color from the garden too! I [...]
Posted in Companion Gardening, garden crafts, gardening, preserving, tagged beans, blue corn, corn, DIY, gardening, How To, saved spinach seed, saving seed on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I decided it was time to pull the corn stalks out of the garden. I was hoping for another harvest of corn from the second set of ears but I can see that is not going to happen – I did save a few mini corns and will let them dry and I may incorporate [...]
Posted in Nature, gardening, tagged Luffa, luna moth on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was somewhat concerned with the Luffa plants down south since I had been keeping an eye on the weather and it appeared very dry and sure enough it was! The luffas were droopy and the first thing I did was give them all a good drink of water .. then I shot some pictures [...]
