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It’s truly a miracle! Happy Friday! MicheleFiled under: spring Tagged: garden, gardening, Salem Massachusetts, Spring
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 ArticleWhat Do You Want For Mother’s Day?
Mother’s Day is tomorrow and the scramble is on! What to get, what to give, what to do with Mom for Mother’s Day? Around here Mother’s Day has been about the garden since my kids were tiny. I love...
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 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 ArticleWordless Wednesday-May 21, 2014
Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: garden, gardening, Salem Massachusetts, Wordless Wednesday
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden- May 24, 2014
Good Morning! Happy Saturday and Happy Planting Day! Yes, I’m using upper case letters because in my world Planting Day is an official holiday. It’s really Planting Weekend around here. We have some...
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 ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day- June 2014
Happy Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day! Here’s a quick peek at a few things that are blooming around here. Happy Father’s Day Mr Mallard! And Happy Father’s Day to our great Dad too! Check out blooms all...
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 ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day- July 2014!!
Hello, hello, hello! We just got back last night from an eight day, multi-state. twenty hour or so car trip to see our families. I fully intended to blog along the way but my internet access came and...
View ArticleI Am NOT a Canner, I’m Just Not
So today was the day. It was time to make the jam! I looked at the containers of fresh raspberries from the garden and decided that I was going to make delicious jam and can it to enjoy all winter. We...
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....
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden, July 30, 2014
I truly can’t believe that it’s been almost a month since I posted a garden update. Where does the time go? We’ve been doing everything… camping, hiking, visiting, working, gardening… you name it!...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday-The Ropes Mansion Garden-August 2014
Filed under: Salem, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: garden, gardening, Peabody Essex Museum, Ropes Mansion, Salem Massachusetts
View ArticleGarden Blogger’s Bloom Day- August 2014
Happy Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day! We had a lot of rain the other day. It was nowhere near the thirteen inch amounts that were reported in areas to the south but it was a continuously driving rain all...
View ArticleWhat’s Eating the Petunias?
Hmmm…Do you see chewed up flowers on your petunias? They look like this.. And in worse case scenarios, like this… Yikes! Here’s the culprit… the green hornworm. They can be very tiny and they’ll try to...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening in the Garden, and With Me –September 14, 2014
I’ll start with the garden. That’s a good lead in to the “and with me” part. To be honest I don’t know what’s happening with me. Maybe some of you can help with that. The garden is okay in a kind...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday-9/24/14 Welcome Home Sweet Camera
I took the lens cover off of my camera at Marconi Station on Cape Cod in August, to take the most beautiful beach shot in the history of the world, to find my lens shattered a million tiny pieces....
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