You have your eye on a large beautiful planter at the store. It would look so nice to the entrance to your home. Then if you are like me you think about how many bags of potting soil will you need to buy? Living With Fibromyalgia And Arthritis Before too long I have talked myself […]
Recited while plucking the petals from a flower (usually a daisy): He loves me, He loves me not. He loves me, He loves me not. He loves me, He loves me not… The couplet is repeated until the all of the petals are discarded; the line spoken when the final petal is plucked divines the […]
During the beginning of the gardening season my dirty clothes pile up. It seems for me Why Does The Laundry Pile Up? during the first part of the gardening season my reason is simply this… where my washer and dryer are located also serves as a place to put my gardening supplies and projects that require tools. […]
Carrots have always been a hit or miss with me. This season I want to increase my odds. What did I do? I googled it of course. I found there were as many ways to do it than I really wanted to know. Instead of reading every article, (they certainly cannot grow from the seed […]
Transplant shock in plants is almost unavoidable. Plants were not designed to be moved from place to place. When we do this to them, problems can arise. There are a few things to know about how to avoid transplant shock and cure plant transplant shock after it has occurred. Let’s look at them. 4 Things […]
Going to the greenhouse is like Christmas in May! I am usually one of the last of Bloomquist Greenhouse customers. I have been putting my vegetable garden in always around the last week in May. It helps that I stopped by a few weeks ago and Deloris Bloomquist took my order for flowers that I […]
Towards the end of this past week an aroma of lilac blooms permeated their fragrance throughout my yard. I have several lilac bushes of white and lavender on my property. Some of the lilacs were planted by my brother and sister-in-law when they lived here. I moved here in 1998. A few years later my […]
Note: May 12th Is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Maybe you cannot pronounce it, maybe you don’t understand it. Just know one thing. This is REAL and too many mostly women are living with it. It is called Fibromyalgia. I will also reveal the number one tool that has helped me the most in dealing with fibromyalgia but […]
This is the fifth season I will be growing nasturtiums. The first few seasons I even had a hard time saying the name. It was comedy for my mom. Today I can easily say Nasturtium [na-stur-shuh m, nuh-]. I still have trouble spelling it at times. I think whomever decided to name some of these plants had […]
How many flowers have you planted in peoples yards to find out they are not going to water them? Of course I am speaking metaphorically. I ran across this quote from a Facebook friend. It is a great quote to live by. So many of us meet new people thinking they are like yourself and […]