Traveling Lighter

Have you ever maintained a compost pile?  This is mine - a yucky looking mess of coffee grounds, filters, banana peels, apple peels, c...

Joining here with Emily Freeman, Chatting At the Sky , and others, to share as we glance in the rear view mirror and prepare to move ahead i...

A new garden friend and I sat on the bench, chatting. About plants, of course. She maintains a large xeriscape garden and wished she could k...

I do have something more serious I could write about. But maybe you need a chuckle today? I have these two face pots, and like to give...

In a post last summer I mentioned my attempt to grow mini pumpkins and mini sweet peppers with seeds saved from ones I bought at the stor...

My plants are thriving with the subtle shift to fall weather. Warm days, with cool breezes. They are bursting with one last shout of colo...

What is that supposed to mean? Think of it as a visual reminder to eat a healthy variety of fruits and vegetables. Every day. Red ....

Isn't this a cute, harmless little zucchini palnt? If you have grown zucchini, you know what comes next. I am not very good at thinni...

Do you remember the post  in February about the plant my son said, "Didn't make it?" Here it is, now, three times the size, ...

This is my full summer garden, a raised bed, five by six feet, and two tomato pots. I was away for ten days, then we had family visiting ...