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A Little Beginning

March 31, 2012

Just a quick garden update today: My Red Romaine is the first to sprout. Yay germination!

This last week has been very busy, but I did manage to get some gardening done, despite the chilly turn our weather has taken in Michigan. This year I’m trying a new method to time my plantings, called gardening by the moon. My Grandmother recommends it, and I trust her gardening advice. To that end, […]

Let’s Get This Garden Started (Part 3)

March 18, 2012

Ok, if you’re just joining us now, here are parts 1 and 2. I’m going to continue telling this story out of order (well, this part is sort of in order but it skips back before it goes forward), so I’m going back to cover Thursday first before I tell you about today. And before […]

Let’s Get This Garden Started (Part 2)

March 15, 2012

Yesterday I told you about the taming of the Wild Shrubbery in my flower bed. Today we’re going to rewind a bit and talk about Sunday afternoon. I know this is all out of chronological order, but please bear with me. Some of you may remember the strange mold problems I had when starting seeds […]

Let’s Get This Garden Started (Part 1)

March 15, 2012

This week the 2012 garden season began for me in earnest. I’m going to tell you about it in a backwards sort of way. On Sunday I got together with Accomplice 1, Accomplice 2a, Accomplice 3, and a couple of other friends to make pots for seed starting. (Yeah, we’re expanding this year.) Instead of […]

Garden Fever

March 3, 2012

It’s that time of year again. The CSA is signed up for, my seeds are ordered, and the first day of spring is less than three weeks away. I’m really starting to get excited. A few of these things are still in the mail, but this is what I’ll be planting: 10 Lily bulbs (grocery […]

March 27th

March 1, 2012

March 27th is the very last day you can comment on the petition to have the FDA label foods containing GMO ingredients. If you would like to contact the FDA directly the docket number is FDA-2011-P-0723-0001/CP. If you want to comment right this second, go here. There have been more that 800,000 signatures so far, […]