Compost Post

Had a great weekend here! It was nice and cool and the sun was out, finally wrapped up a particularly heavy workload and that meant time to get out in the garden! You may or may not remember my efforts at planter-gardening last year, but I really got a lot out of it...

Off to Bed

Beautiful, sunny and mild outside today so I took the opportunity to get my plants into their outdoor boxes. I started them from seeds, back in March and am pretty pleased with how much they’ve grown already. Usually greenery doesn’t make it past the...

Betting the Farm

Last year, I planted a little office-windowsill herb garden. It started out well but I’m sorry to say, ultimately resulted in mass herbicide. Evidently, I have a lot to learn about plants. At the garden centre this morning, I was looking to replace them with...

Chive Talkin’

The very first sprouts in my windowsill herb garden popped up this morning! The chives are the first and as silly as it may sound, they’re as much fun now as chia pets were when I was a kid. I also (finally) updated the Baroness’s formspring account....

Herb, meet Basil

The last couple of Food Revolution challenges were Barbecued Chicken, Yogurt Pops, Cupcakes and Fruit Salad. I make barbecued chicken all the time so the novelty’s worn off a bit, I don’t have kids so there’s no sense in making yogurt pops that no...