Spotlight: GROWVEG by Benedict Vanheems

I first became aware of Mr. Vanheems while surfing YouTube for gardening advice.  He provides straight forward instruction newbies like me can understand! Storey Blurb: For anyone who has ever wanted to tend a little piece of ground but wasn’t sure where to begin, GrowVeg offers simple recipes for gardening projects that are both attainable…

Gardening Without Seeds From the Store

This Book on Goodreads Blurb: No-Waste Kitchen Gardening is a fun and colorful exploration of the amazing results you can get by re-growing vegetable cutoffs and scraps into harvestable, edible plants. Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! The expert advice in No-Waste Kitchen…

Going Into Summer Mode Soon

This means I’ve disabled comments & will be prescheduling posts for once a week or less.  I’ll be mostly off-line, but will still check eMail regularly.  Remember, it’s not too late to plant a container garden!  Radishes, lettuce, & peas can grow crazy-fast on your window sill.  Freeze eggs by cracking two in a bowl,…

Resurrecting the Cowboy Baby Homestead

Spuds, that is, potatoes.   GARDEN ANYWHERE at Goodreads I see an overgrown garden that has not been tended in years, a corral fence falling over, and an old barn collapsing, and I smile, imagining the many wonderful stories these things have seen through the years. And then I am sad to realize the people who…

Chicks Move From Brooder to Coop

Good morning, Blog Buds! The chicks are now fully feathered out and have grown big enough to live outside.  But I didn’t just toss them out with the lone survivor from my last flock, Anna.  She woulda beat the crap out of them!  That’s her territory out there and they’re just irritating little invaders, as…