My father-in-law Joe grows a large, beautiful garden every year. His children grew up selling cantaloupes from a roadside stand beside their farm. He is always experimenting with a new crop, or building a trellis, or trying out a new way to plant tomatoes. No matter how he plants his garden, the food he raises [...]
Several weeks ago, Cynthia of Dahling, I Love You But Give Me Park Avenue! sent me a link to New York Times article with a photo of a ‘colonial garden’. She said that it looked like something that would go with my house. I followed the link and knew immediately that I had to [...]
Our town is nestled in at the northern edge of the Flint Hills, one of the last places on earth where Native Tallgrass can still be found covering the prairie in huge quantities. There are several Tallgrass preserves in our area, and the Country Doctor and I love to take the kids to the Konza [...]
I am an architecture junkie.
I love houses and well designed buildings.
I love old derelict homes on abandoned highways sagging from neglect and misuse and I always want to hitch them to my car, drag them home and fix them up again.
I love new buildings too… the way they smell… how everything is still so clean… [...]
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21 – Lynne who said, “Yum! Tomatoes! I love spring!”
84 – Ronda JT who said, “I just saw one of these advertised tonight for the first time. I am thinking that if I hang them high enough, the elk and deer will not eat them! Thanks for the opportunity to [...]
A few weeks ago I potted a grape cherry tomato into a topsy turvy tomato hanger at work. Actually, I potted it up two times. The first time, I did not realize that you are supposed to bury mature tomato plants into the dirt past their leaves,and half way up their stems. It is [...]
I hope to get a garden giveaway up this evening. If you like upside down homegrown tomatoes, you might want to check back tonight.