From the monthly archives: April 2010
Seedlings happily growing along! peas, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, and more.
One of my pothos plants, it’s very long! This one is wide. I just love pothos plants, they are so easy to care for and grow so well.
Brian is building a big compost bin. We’ll have the current compost ground space for leaf and grass, yard stuff and use this one for kitchen scraps, paper, cardboard. We were having trouble with wild animals like raccoons plowing through the ground pile and spreading garbage everywhere.
Brian ruthlessly cut them back last fall, I can tell already that the blackberry bushes are going to be much more manageable this year. and we’ll still get enough to eat and to can. Yay!
We had a nice snow cover this winter, but I did not turn the leaf pile even once since last fall. Thus the leaves are still not compost, or even half done. Well the bottom layer is ready but still. Going to wet down and commence to turning and stomping.
Never too early to prepare wood. Here is some wood Brian chopped seasoning.
Well you know around family Earthprint every day is Earth Day, but I do want to acknowledge what we’re doing special today. Or rather what we planned to do in celebration, which was to have a huge yard sale and recycle some of our gently used things (ok some are hard-used LOL) we no longer [...]
Brian is excited to work on outdoor projects now that winter is over. What’s he making now? stay tuned!
I just love these! The first flowers of the year. Daffodils are just such a wonderful and lovely sign of spring
Was pulling up the creeper in the garden when I realized I was also pulling up mint! So far the garden mint has remained contained in it’s allotted spot but I am sure it will pop up everywhere. It always does
Step 1: Gather some dandelion flowers! Step 2: Cut off the heads! Step 3: Pour hot water over them and steep! Step 4: Enjoy! Dandelions can be used for many things, including tea! In my experience the flowers are best in spring. One of the benefits of dandelion tea is that it works as a [...]
It’s that time of year again! I’m all late getting started but oh well, better late than never. These are peas, the seeds were harvested from my garden last year. I have some listed on my etsy and soon to be on my site Earthy Style Spring peas lettuce spinach broccoli carrots Summer cucumber turnips [...]
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