After a busy work week, we’ve had a fabulous, fun, & relaxing weekend! As I type this, the temperature is currently a glorious 67 degrees & sunny (with a high today of 79); I’m not going to talk about the fact that the high later this week will be backContinue Reading
Winter can’t stop me from attempting to garden. With the help of “the sun” and oddly quite a few days of sun this winter we’ve been able to grow limes like a mo-fo. It looks like I have successfully tricked our lime tree, Captain Sunshine, into thinking that it isContinue Reading
We did some cleaning up in our patio garden today & I found lots of tomatillo pods that had fallen off of our hanging tomatillo plant. I thought they looked delicate & beautiful & I knew I had to snap a picture! And our friend Amy was kind of enoughContinue Reading
Behold, the fruits of our labor; harvested today, fresh from our very own garden – limes, herbs (basil, mint, & parsley), nasturtium, red onions, tomatoes, & peppers!
Ah, how far we’ve come… This is how our little garden began & this is how it looks today! We’ve really enjoyed growing our own herbs, fruits, & vegetables & Ryan has been great about keeping up the watering (which needs to be done almost daily to keep the tomatoesContinue Reading
We planted our garden at the end of May & I’m happy to report that it’s doing really great so far; we were away the first week in June & when we returned it had grown quite a lot in such a short period of time – I’m sure allContinue Reading
Ryan built this awesome planter box a couple weekends ago from cedar, it’s on wheels/casters, & has rope pulls which make it movable – it’s pretty great! So, now that it’s warming up & safe to plant, we had the pleasure of picking out what we’d like in our firstContinue Reading
Ryan & I picked up an old, wooden RC Cola crate when we were in El Paso, TX last December & I thought it would make a great planter. So, we went herb shopping at the farmer’s market today & put it together & I think it has to be justContinue Reading
We spent last Sunday cleaning up our patio & it looks really nice! We had some plants that had seen better days & needed to be tossed & we also planted some new plants or replanted & cleaned out ones we’ve had that needed a little TLC. It took longerContinue Reading