My best friend bought me a rose bush for my birthday. She’s an avid flower gardener and has about a dozen or so different roses in her yard, all of them very beautiful and well cared for. So she was very excited to find out that I had moved somewhere I could plant my [...]
This past weekend has more than made up for my lack of gym time. I cancelled my membership last month due to the fact that I knew I was going to have moving costs and be paying two rents for the month of May. Money was going to be tight and I needed to cut [...]
Last night I came home from grocery shopping (oh, the crazy and extravagant things you can do on payday) and saw one of my daisies starting to bloom! Now if only the 5 other plants would catch up.
It’s odd that I’ve really started to like gardening - I’ve never spent as much time taking care [...]
Last night I was out in my front yard working in my garden, which oddly enough I find very relaxing. I’m on my hands and knees in the dirt, weeding the tomatoes, when I hear “Where did you get those big ones there?”
I turn around and see the woman who lives across the street standing [...]
Whichever way you want to pronounce it - I’m going to have a hell of a lot of them by the end of the summer. This past weekend, in between bouts of packing, my sisters and I went greenhouse-hopping to get plants for our vegetable gardens. I really want to grow some unusual heirloom tomatoes [...]
