Posts by Tag: gardening
Let My Garden Be Your Muse
I have had a vegetable garden every year since I graduated from college. Even when we were renting houses I would always get permission to start them. What I have learned from gardening I know can be applied to my writing. The first garden I started...
Gardening With Kids: The Seed Catalog
Throughout the long Midwestern winter, with its gray-brown slush and frigid winds, something finally happens to brighten my day. It is the arrival of seed catalogs in our mailbox. My guilty pleasure is to sit by the kitchen window with a cup of coffee...
It's time to dig in the dirt
The winter that seemed like it would never end finally seems to be over. It is time to start digging in the earth. See Mother Earth came up with this really great system a long ways back: You put seeds in the ground and plants grow. You can grow things...
Gardening and Online Jobs
Hey GoodBloggers! So how’s everything here? Wow, looks like votes are picking up and that can only mean one thing: somebody has too many Goodblogs.com accounts! Just kidding! Of course, more votes=more people=more traffic Well, today I did a lot...
Three hours, three women, 80 bags of mulch - Got 'er done!
There is a group of three of us - two of my friends and I - who have come up with a brilliant way of doing unpleasant things. About once a month we take turns gathering at each others' homes to do chores we don't like doing, need help doing and/or things...
How Gardening with Grandma as a Child Brings Writing Success Today
Weeding and working in the garden makes words pop up... Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve had a passion for writing. And not just a passion, but a burning desire. The words that stir in my heart and soul simply must find a way to escape; they have...
My BLACK thumb
I love plants – but they don't love me. I love going to the nursery and buying gorgeous potted plants. I choose the right ones for the place I have in mind: dappled light, full sun, shade, indoor, outdoor – but it doesn't make a bit of difference. ...
What Did I Do?
What does it mean to be a green thumb? How can people help gardens and flowers grow? How about when you think you are taking good care of a plant and then it just turns on you and wither's away? What a poor little sunflower..... At the end of the school...
Mater Blooms, Oh My!
I love tomatoes. They’re juicy. They’re delicious. They’re beautiful. And you can eat ‘em all sorts of ways: made into sauces, fried (when green!), raw, juiced, in omelets, grilled, broiled, right off the stalk in your hand like an apple – you name it...
Go Ahead, Go Get a Plant...But Read this First!
Even though I’ve had my trials and tribulations with HOUSEPLANTS, I can’t resist trying to grow them...and so anyway, here are a few things I’ve learned along the way that I hope will help you unleash your horticultural talents. BEWARE THE DIVAS These...