Outdoor Table Makeover in Minutes
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Does your outdoor table need an update? This quick makeover using
waterproof oil cloth may be just the fix! This project from Martha Stewart
Living‘s June ...
Rhubarb is Ready for Post Produce!
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Rhubarb produces huge elephant-ear leaves on the ends of slender stalks.
The plants naturally shade out undergrowth, so a rhubarb patch can do well
with li...
Best early color hostas
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The hostas are emerging! The hostas are finally emerging! Here are my
favorite hostas in my garden for spring early color.
Sagae
Fire Island
St Elmo's Fir...
My DIY Home Garden in Malaysia - GBBD May 2013
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Strange things are happening to my hibiscus lately.
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My yellow hibiscus has change in appearance! It was a beautiful single
flower hibiscus with wavy...
Taking it slow.
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I’ve been not really in the mood for much of anything lately, hence my
unfortunately negative recent blog posts and general viewpoint about the
world. So I...
Make Your Own Rooting Hormone From Willow Twigs
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Bonsai was my gateway drug into gardening in my late teens. I even worked
in a bonsai nursery for a bit, and one of my favorite gardening tricks I
picked u...
Easy Homemade Cilantro Lime Hummus
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It's been a long time since I have posted. Too long as a matter of fact.
I promise to make a point to try to update more often. This past year has
broug...
What Plants Talk About
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A few months ago Mother Nature Network asked me to write a post for their
website about plant sentience. My working title as I was writing the post
was Do ...
The Last Frost of Spring
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When I looked out my window last Saturday morning, the freshly blooming
spring was coated with a layer of glistening frost.
Pieris Japonica - an late ...
Seed Starting, my favorite time of year!
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Excitement builds, as it is my favorite time of year! Seed Starting!!!!
Starting seeds to me means a new start and great possibilities! I do love
growing ...
World Kite Festival, Pasir Gudang ~ the antics
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It was a hot afternoon, but fun all the way.
*23rd February 2013, Pasir Gudang*
" You shoot me, I will shoot you! " we both said
a participant from...
Rainbow Lacinato Kale
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This variety of kale was recommended by several local CSA vegetable
producers. With curly edges, red veins, purple leaves, blue-green leaves,
you could a...
Welcoming the New Class to the Garden
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The day had come and I was so excited to meet a new class of grade three
students. I love meeting a new class although it may take until next May
for me ...
Garden2Blog 2012 with P. Allen Smith & Friends
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April was a blur for me as I spent most of it sick, then May was spent
catching up on the garden chores that I neglected in April, with some
excitement s...
{Meatless Monday} DIY Kale Chips + Linky Love
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Hi, guys! Our meals have been kind of boring lately … lot’s of beans, rice
and veggie mixes … !!! Don’t get me wrong, they’re certainly satisfying
just not...
The Space After a Nightmare
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There is no space in time quite as lonely as that after a nightmare. The
house has quieted back down, after being rudely awakened by screams and it
is eeri...
Tomato & Smoked Shellfish Soup (Trina)
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*Tomato & Smoked Shellfish Soup*
*Recipe from 1 Stock, 100 Soups*
* by Linda Doeser*
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*Recipe 75 *
*You can find this recipe on page 168 of this wonderf...
Berea Chicken Brigade
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This post is about Chickens and Sisters. I recently got back from a trip to
visit my two sisters in Kentucky.
My sister Katie (an avid gardener) has owne...