A little slow getting here. A few early blooms were damaged by a nineteen degree night, but flowers will continue to open as the days become warmer. Short sleeves one day, snow the next, though mild temperatures have been rare in this colder than average month.

Organic gardening for the rest of us. Organic gardening is so easy. Another week and another free chapter of my organic gardening book, Grow So Easy; Organic Gardening for the Rest of Us! This week I will share some tips and secrets for growing great eggplants! Bianca Rosa eggplant enjoying the heat. There are three tricks to getting full-flavored fruit from an eg.

Face in our wilderness moments? That sort of competitiveness can turn into the temptation to feel jealousy, envy, anger, bitterness, disappointment, all those si.

A journey of discovery in my garden. Cabbage with nutmeg and feta. Slow cooker baked potato and fried egg. Tomato and Jerusalem artichoke soup. I had always known the bushes would have to go and once I started digging, plans for what to do next started to formulate. The new space became the vegetable patch. While I then got rid of the lawn. This meant that I had a lot of space for growing vegetables but I did also want space for other type.

The ups and downs of the gardening world. A skipper butterfly inserting its proboscis into the flower slurping up nectar. Butterflies are flying everywhere in my yard, swooping, basking, and fluttering like graceful ballerinas in a ballet. Observing the butterflies visiting my flowers and trying to catch them with my camera is difficult at times, so I did some research about their habits to make it more likely to capture them in the lens of my camera. Gulf Fritillary basking on Zinnia.

Gardening, Family and Life in Salem, Massachusetts. Love, Michele Continue reading Therapy.