Chic Garden Tool Organizer

HOORAY! It is Spring time! (yes, I hate winter and have been waiting for what seems like an eternity for the warm weather to get here).  With the arrival of Spring, my thoughts turn to gardening and I anxiously throw on my ‘garden grubbies’ and old sneakers and head out to the shed to dust off my garden tools…. but I can’t find them…I swore I put them right there on the shelf in the shed last Fall.  But the mysterious Winter Gremlins must have hid them on me, or my spouse ‘borrowed’ them to change the oil in the … Read more...

Sweet Potatoes in Soup? You betcha…

Today is FREEZING…so, soup is on the menu.  One that makes you think of the spices and aromas that fill the air as you stroll the ‘mercados’ in the Caribbean Islands.  I came across this recipe from of all places, the North Bay Nugget Newspaper, and of course, being the notorious recipe tweaker that I am, I just had to tweak it – cuz I know I could (and did) make it better.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

  Caribbean Black Bean Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients

4 Cups Chicken Broth* (preferably home-made, if store bought, get … Read more...

Jack and the Beanstalk…

Or perhaps the Giant Redwood and the Sugar Snap Pea Shoot….however you want to compare, THIS is the difference between my tomato plants and my pepper plants at the moment….
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This Poblano Pepper plant is only about 5″ high, the Tom Tomato immediately behind it is about 2′ feet high and you could literally watch it grow if you sat in the living room long enough.  Did I mention that Pepper plants are slow growers? on the other hand, the toms look they are on steroids and I have done nothing different in raising the two types…nature of the garden
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The Living Room Greenhouse

It’s a JUNGLE out there I tell you!  You should see my greenhouse, ahem, I mean, my living room right now, ok, hang on while I get the camera out…..
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There? crazy isn’t it? Normally I have only 3 plants on the floor, one is my Grapefruit Tree (thank you to my daughter as it was a birthday present a few yrs ago), another is a Peace Lily and the third is my Rosemary bush that is currently going crazy.  But as you can plainly see, my living room is now crowded with over 40 pots in various sizes of
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