Just a little winter update. I have been busy during this quiet time of year. I started my early tomatoes and they are going strong. I also have some onions and celery sprouting. My celery plants will be graduating to a bigger pots soon. First round of peppers will be getting started this week. IContinue reading “Just a Little Winter Update”
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Early Spring Planting: My February Tomatoes
What to plant in February? For me I am getting my first round of tomatoes started. I know it sounds too early, but trust me, it is worth the extra time and effort. By starting the seeds in February I can have tomatoes by June in New England. I go with the earlier varieties likeContinue reading “Early Spring Planting: My February Tomatoes”
Easy One-Pan Chicken and Veggies Recipe
I love one pan dinners. Less mess and completely customized to what you have on hand. With five people to feed and lots of different taste buds to satisfy this is my type of meal. If you don’t like one vegetable, you can eat the others. Also, less clean-up is always appreciated by whoever isContinue reading “Easy One-Pan Chicken and Veggies Recipe”
What’s for Breakfast? Eggs and Chive Blossoms
It was one of those mornings. I opened my eyes, and my body was still tired from the day before and my brain was still ready for some more extra sleep. Making this recipe was the motivator to get out of bed. I have been watching the garden and enjoying all the chive blossoms blooming,Continue reading “What’s for Breakfast? Eggs and Chive Blossoms”
Busy days and Relaxing Evenings
I had a pretty busy weekend, the garden is taking up more time, with seedlings popping up and starting new trays of seeds for some early spring planting, and I have been working on some homemade beauty and household cleaning products. Yesterday my brother and I made laundry detergent pods out of soap berries, theContinue reading “Busy days and Relaxing Evenings”
A Fool’s Spring Cleaning
Some spring renovations have happened in the greenhouse and we are ready for the seedlings to enter the building. We had some shelves in the house that we weren’t using and as usual I was running out of room in my little seed starting area, so we moved that shelving out there and it wasContinue reading “A Fool’s Spring Cleaning”
Healing Winter Hands Salve
With the cold New England weather dry hands are bound to happen. Luckily this Calendula & Rose Hips Salve will come to the rescue! The calendula flower has been noted to promote cell repair and new growth while being gentle and soothing on the skin. Rosehips add antioxidants and essential fatty acids to give yourContinue reading “Healing Winter Hands Salve”
Peas and Bees
We have our first real big snow storm of the year and it’s February! It started coming down this afternoon and should last until sometime tomorrow, with about 14 inches dropped on the ground once it moves out of here. One thing that I loved about today was that while there were snowflakes falling IContinue reading “Peas and Bees”
January in the Greenhouse
We have some new life in the greenhouse! I was trying to decide what would be the safest veggies to plant throughout the coldest part of the year and went with peas and a few different types of lettuce. I was getting a bit discouraged when I kept checking and there were no baby seedlingsContinue reading “January in the Greenhouse”
Beans and Other Things
I have been missing in action for the last few weeks after gracefully dropping my laptop onto the floor and smashing my little traveling computer into messy bits. For those that know me well, the fact that I dropped something would come as no surprise. They would know that I should not be trusted withContinue reading “Beans and Other Things”
Acorn & Birch 