This weekend was enough to make us think that spring had come to Seattle. But alas, it’s just a bit of nice weather that will be replaced by rain again later this week.
We worked on the bathroom a bit this weekend, but we also just got out and enjoyed the sun. I pulled some winter [...]
I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in.
In it are all of this year’s seeds, alphabetized by type. It’s always amazing to me that a) I can fill [...]
The seeds that I ordered have arrived and I’ve been sorting and organizing them into a new box with the seeds from 2008 and 2009. But the biggest part of planning the garden every year is actually figuring out what is going where. I actually do this before I order seeds so that I have [...]
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to relax about the garden this year. To plan and plant for our real lives, not our ideal lives, and for what we really want to eat.
In 2009, I planned and planted a garden that assumed I had just as much time (and water) to devote to it [...]
It’s been a run of gorgeous sunrises around here. The kind that make me welcome the time change and the fact that it’s again getting light just as I leave for work. Of course, I know that it won’t last and pretty soon I’ll be leaving in the dark and getting home in the dark. [...]