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I don’t have all of my plants in the ground. You might remember I was debating about how much I would plant this year. My back, hip, and right leg aren’t always cooperating with me. So…do I plant…do I not? That was my big debate. I decided that I thought I could plant the impatiens …

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We had a freeze here so all of my pretty plants are gone.  It’s totally okay.  It comes to October and I’m tired of watering and maintaining them anyway so I let them go. Here in Iowa we have been so blessed with great weather.  There hasn’t been much rain and the temps have been […]

You might remember me saying that we had some weird weather in April.  It was cold and rainy.  We made it into May with lots of rain and some decent temperatures.

I didn’t worry too much even though I always plant on Mother’s Day weekend and that date passed.  This last week the weather turned around and I hurried to the garden center and bought my plants.  I told you about getting my flowers planted in THIS POST.

Well, Karl tilled my garden one evening so I went out and planted all of the seedlings and starts.  I ...

The weather here in Iowa has not been conducive to farmers or gardeners or anyone who wants to be outside.  Typically by now I have some things planted.  Typically I’m chomping at the bit to want to buy plants, pots, potting soil and all things garden…but the weather has not been favorable at all.  It’s been cold…and now rainy.  Look at that forecast on my computer.  Although some of those chances are only 30 or 40% chances of rain, it looks down right depressing.

I’ve been starting to see photos from other places of people ...

I’d love to show you some amazing garden pictures.  I have a few…many of my flowers are looking pretty good…

But if you look closer, they don’t look as good as they could.  See that space there?

I had what I now believe were deer in my garden.  See the divots?  I think they might be deer prints.  UGH!

I try not to focus on that and instead see the beauty that’s left.

My hummingbird feeder has been a popular place for the birds and for the kids.  They love watching them out the window.

My ...

I told you on Tuesday that the garden has been taking up lots of my time.  My tomatoes are coming in heavy.  I am not complaining.  I love it…but it is taking up lots of my time.

One of the main things I’ve been making is yard sauce.  I first heard about this two years ago while watching Priscilla and Chelsea on floss tube.  They were making yard sauce and told how to make it.

The recipe was one of those recipes that was so easy to make that I’d be a nut not to try making ...

One of my all-time favorite things is greens from the garden.  This year I planted spinach and swiss chard.  Both work great for this recipe.  I’ve made this with canned greens and it’s good that way too but the game is completely upped with fresh greens.

Kramer’s mom made something like this and I loved it.  I went on to make it and introduce it to our kids.  As per usual, I don’t have a “real” recipe but this is what it looks like…and trust me, it’s GREAT!!

I cut half-frozen bacon into little ...

Not long ago I posted a picture on Instagram of the raspberries I had just picked from my garden.
After the picture was posted I had several people ask me questions about my raspberries.

I thought I’d answer them and then give you a recipe for a cake I made.

Kramer and I planted four raspberry plants along the back of our garage about four years ago.  We planted some asparagus on one end and horseradish on the other.

It’s all the “ugly” things that we like but make the garden look not so great.  This is the ...

I told you that I had a couple of days off last week.  I didn’t want a big vacation or even time away.  All I wanted was to finish up some projects at home…mainly the garden and landscaping.

For a long time, I had a flower garden in front of my regular vegetable garden.  The garden always looked unkept.  I was just never happy with it.  I’d weed the veggies and then get pooped out and not weed the flowers.

I had a goal to do something different.

I ended up making the flower garden much smaller ...

I plan on having a garden this year. Karl said that he’d be interested in helping.  I’ve had a garden here ever since we moved here and I had a garden for several years when we lived on the farm.

I enjoy gardening.  I had really hoped to have raised beds built this year but alas.  I don’t think that is going to happen.  I was talking to Buck about it and he said that lumber price is crazy high so it might be better to wait a year with the hope that prices might come down ...

I hosting an auction here on the blog.  If you missed it, you can find it HERE.  It ends today at noon central time.  If you’re looking for sewing machine attachments for your vintage machines, this is the sale you’ve been looking for.

When I woke up on Saturday I was bound and determined to accomplish something.  Do you ever go from day to day, busy the whole time, yet feel like you continually accomplish nothing?  My days have seemed like that.

I decided it was garden day.  I’ve been debating and debating over the last while ...