(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to Indiana, animals, birds, grass, snow, spring, weather, wind, yellow on 2008-03-03, 05:32:00

52*, 80% humidity, SSW 17 mph wind, light rain, FLOOD WARNING, FLASH FLOOD WATCH All the world, except for in shady patches, was revealed yesterday. Expanses of yellow lawn, sidewalks, and roofs were uncovered from their cold crispy blanket and mounded piles of snow. Then the wind began, late, near the midnight witching hour when the coyote crosses through the yard on his nightly hunt and when

(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to Indiana, Winter, animals, seeds, shrubs, snow, spring, veggies, weather, weekend, wind on 2008-02-26, 06:13:00

32*, feels like 20*, 87% humidity, N 18 mph wind, light snow So much for the taste of spring that we had last weekend! We are now covered in a blanket of snow again, with howling winds. it is said that this is the snowiest year in 30 years. All I know is this is the snowiest winter yet I've had since moving to Indiana. So, in protest and FAITH that spring will return in a timely manner, I sowed

(Via Girl Gone Gardening)

Posted by admin to California, Indiana, cheapskate finds, farm, seeds, veggies on 2008-02-24, 07:01:00

Slim Jim Eggplant--OP from Pinetree Garden Seeds. I've grown eggplants way back in ca, haven't tried growing them in IN. I don't like the big kinds. YUCK and I don't eat enough of them to grow a lot, so slim jim seemed to be the perfect one for me to try.Corn, sweet- Kandy Korn--Not OP, being surround by corn fields makes it darn near impossible to want to save seeds from corn. So I may as well