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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The Vegetable Garden Poem

This was originally posted over at Gardeners Reach by DragonFly Lady.

For the Garden Of Your Living...

Plant three rows of Peas:

1. Peace of mind

2. Peace of heart

3. Peace of soul

Plant four rows of Squash:

1. Squash gossip

2. Squash indifference

3. Squash grumbling

4. Squash selfishness

Plant four rows of Lettuce:

1. Lettuce be faithful

2. Lettuce be kind

3. Lettuce be patient

4. Lettuce really love one another

No garden is without Turnips:

1. Turnip for meetings

2. Turnip for service

3. Turnip to help one another

To conclude our garden...

We must have Thyme:

1. Thyme for each other

2. Thyme for family

3. Thyme for friends

Water freely with patience and cultivate with love.

There is much fruit in your Garden because...

You Reap, What You Sow!

Author Unknown
Happy Gardening,
Valerie
Don't know what to get the gardener in your life? Try my suggestions on the left or maybe one of these.

I read up this past winter (yuk is it still winter????) about Square Foot Gardening and Companion Planting. I took notes but since the books were Library books I don't have the book in front of me at this time. I ran across a WONDERFUL blog about SFG and Companion Gardening, and Emily had put together an AWESOME chart for those of us who get headaches thinking about this type of thing. Emily's blog is MySquareFootGarden and the page with her chart is HERE. Emily also has several posts on her adventures in her garden, please take a minute or two and stop by her blog.
Happy Gardening,
Valerie

Don't know what to get the gardener in your life? Try my suggestions on the left or maybe one of these.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

It's seed starting time here in NE Texas, however I am waiting another week or two, as The Farmer's Almanac is saying RAIN until March. However, if you cannot wait here are a few videos to get you started.

Do you or your Sweetheart want to start a Garden, but don't know where to start? How about here.

Happy Gardening,

Valerie

Don't know what to get the gardener in your life? Try my suggestions on the left or maybe one of these.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Follow Friday 1/29/2010

Welcome to our Family Garden, if you are new here thank you for stopping by!!

Here are 3 things I wanted to share about our garden.
Where NOT to put salt in the Garden.
The Lizard Story
& What we are doing to ourselves (long post)

Happy Gardening,
>Valerie
Don't know what to get the gardener in your life? Try my suggestions on the left or one of these.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Sharpening Your Garden Tools

I am starting a series on Garden Tools, how long this takes depends on my allergies.

Since turning to things natural, when ever I come across chemicals and perfumes (stinky chemicals) my allergies re-act in an ugly way.br />
Long story short, my daughter gets nosebleeds when the house gets dusty or I use chemicals to clean. I have been using Vinegar as my primary cleaner, and when in the kitchen and need extra disinfectant action I use Vinegar and Peroxide. This time it was the body wash and lotion my daughter (same daughter) got for Christmas. Going Natural has its benefits, but come on people let's stop killing each other with stinky stuff.....

To start off the series I am going to list some links to articles and videos about sharpening and caring for your tools. I'll get more into care and repair later, but some of these are combined so if I double link, please forgive me.

NOTE: although I am passing these links on, know that I have scanned or watched these links quickly as I need to get back into bed (OH how I wish it was the garden bed). If there are problems or concerns, please leave me a comment. I will get to it soon, but leaving a comment may just stop someone else from having the same problem so check comments before you go to the links.

Cleaning Your Garden Tools from Gardeners Reach.
How to Sharpen Tools and Daniel Boone's How to Sharpen Your Ax
How to Sharpen Garden Tools
A video for you. If you watch on YouTube you will see more how to videos.

Happy Gardening,
Valerie

Don't know what to get for the gardener in your life? Check out my gift ideas to the left or try one of these.