Spring has Sprung!

We’ve been completely spoiled with beautiful spring weather! Seems so funny that we were complaining about the long winter just a few weeks ago. It’s actually been unseasonably warm, so I hope it doesn’t return to “normal” weather, because we will think it’s cold! ha ha! WordPress has a new slideshow thing, so I thought [...]

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A Little Valentine Project

I saw some little Valentine kits to grow strawberries in the Target dollar section, so I just had to get some. I’m sure I could have spent less gathering the items in the kit myself, but it would have taken more than $3 worth of my time, I suppose. Ok, purchase justified. ha ha! We followed [...]

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A Reminder of Spring

Look what is blooming on my kitchen windowsill! This little petunia was a volunteer that showed up in a large outdoor pot in the fall. (We seem to have random plants popping up in our yard lately. Did you hear about our stray tomato plant?) It actually kept growing after other flowers had faded. I [...]

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Discovery

I recently mentioned that gardening would be much easier if one had a garden in their own yard, rather than at Grandma and Grandpa’s farm, as we tried this year. Well, we made a fun garden discovery recently. Our poor sandbox was mostly a mud hole all spring and summer, because it rained so much. [...]

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Garden Time!

The kids have been very intrigued with seeds, plants and the growing process. We don’t have an ideal yard for planting a vegetable garden, so we are “borrowing” some dirt out on The Farm (aka Grandma & Grandpa Drost’s) this year. This past Saturday, we picked up some seeds at the store (veggies for The Farm [...]

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