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Seed starting indoors or outdoors?

This week, I’m continuing with my 2025 garden plans. I have received many seeds from my seed exchange group and some of these seeds should be started indoors in my zone, 7b. This was not something I was expecting and it is a bit of work to set up. I have limited indoor space soContinue reading “Seed starting indoors or outdoors?”

The big freeze

It is a new year and it has been a busy week for me. I am continuing to plan the garden for this year. I learned about Dollar Tree seed packets and bought many of them. They are a great deal at 4/$1.25 and I hope some will grow. Previously 4/$1.00. Inflation is everywhere. IContinue reading “The big freeze”

Many mushrooms after the rain ☔

I returned to the farm on Friday and did some more planting. Due to joining the seed exchange, I ended up with many seeds to plant indeed. I decided to go ahead and sow the ones that needed cold stratification now and let nature take care of that. Hopefully it will be a good decisionContinue reading “Many mushrooms after the rain ☔”

Surprise sweet potato harvest

This past Saturday, we visited the farm to do some work. I did a little winter sowing of white yarrow and shungiku. I ordered these from a site called freeheirloomseeds.org. I also ordered the wildflower seeds I planted a few weeks ago from a small Etsy shop called Bloom and Haul. I like to supportContinue reading “Surprise sweet potato harvest”

Seed Exchange

This week, I cleaned all of the seeds from the persimmons we got last week. There were over 160, which is more than we need. So I joined a seed exchange group on Facebook to trade some. I got a lot of responses and am excited to see what seeds I will get in theContinue reading “Seed Exchange”

Winter surprises

We went to the farm yesterday and continued to work on the garden. There is a lot to do to prepare for the next year. We decided to go get rocks from the dry creek to start building more raised beds for next year. This was a lot of work but fun to explore theContinue reading “Winter surprises”

Gratitude

This week, I was reminded by the Thanksgiving holiday of all the things I have to be grateful for. I am grateful for my family and boyfriend, a warm bed, good food and water, my cat, freedom, and so many more things. I find that when I think about what I am happy to haveContinue reading “Gratitude”

Gifts for my sister

I am beginning to prepare gifts for the holidays for my family and have started on making gifts for my sister. This week, I entered a small art contest on IG. I didn’t win but my sister really liked the drawing and said she’d like it framed. So I will look for a frame forContinue reading “Gifts for my sister”

Letting go

The topic of letting go has been on my mind recently as the growing season ends. I wanted to share some quotes about letting go that I like: “I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world, finding it so much like myself.” Albert Camus “The happiness of your life depends on the qualityContinue reading “Letting go”

Growing herbs

This week, I will talk about the herbs I grew this year and how I use them. I am still working through the pumpkins and this week plan to make pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin bread. I also have harvested some rosemary, purple basil, thyme, and oregano from my garden in zone 7b. I like rosemaryContinue reading “Growing herbs”