Life

Well Life has a very funny way of working sometimes. We had originally known that we would probably be moving about 2 hrs away from where we are living now. no big deal my husband has been working out there until January. So a place although it is small has been established. My Husband was laid off and we thought we were going to have to make a long journey across many states to move back towards the eastern shore. As fate would have it My Husband was called as we were packing up the house in Harrison And asked if he would like to start work on Monday. Hurrayyyyyyy!!!! He is actually in Orientation today :) THe best part is the company I work for has an office in that area as well. So it looks like our move will go as originally planned. Thank god for small miricles. I still feel like a gypsy and there will still be alot to do, But nothing like moving 20 hours away, I will take the 2 hrs any day!!! And my plants can survive a move like that sooooooooooo much better!! :)

I am......

I am kinda sad tonight, I wont go into tons of detail because lets face it. this is the world wide web. I have had many wonderful and beautiful things to say the past couple of days and not the time to type them. Now that i have the time to type I am saddened with my news that I must move. I am like a gypsy. a wandering free spirit left to the wind. no place to call home for to long. apparently it is my eternal destiny to constantly uproot. It can be exciting and a fantastic adventure. It can also be sorrowful and scary. And why now!!! of all times,. when i am so ready for my garden to grow. My last gift to my friends here will be to make there gardens for them,.And make sure someone can help my clients with theres. Sunday I just finished planting pea's for my little man and this weekend we are going to plant carrots and raddishes. oh I am so mournful. I do not know what to do. I hate this. But Life Happens

Butterfly Garden

The Butterfly/Hummingbird garden is officially complete!!! It looks better than I ever imagined. I dont mean to tute my own horn...lol now tomarrow I am planting 10 trees, 2 crape myrtals and 7 azaelias!! lol We are really getting some landscaping done here at moms, she is starting to call me her personal landscaper. lol But really it is all starting to look so very nice. Its really going to be fantastic this summer. But for now color is all about us and I for one am so thankful and lovin it!!! I dread the winter every year. but it makes me appreciate the wonders of spring I suppose. As soon as I figure out how to post pics I will add some of all these projects.

Lobster....

OK So me being the smart and wonderful person that I am. I decided to use the beautiful weather to my advantage and get Lots of yard work done These past 3 days :) lol And even though I have these wonderful Italian genetics, even I forget sometimes that boy have I gotten pale over the winter. lol Until I start looking like a lobster tonight....hehehe Thankfully its not that bad, I just need to to try and take it easy the next couple of days. even though I am working on a huge project for mom with her butterfly/hummingbird garden and thinning bulbs for one client and working on the weekends with my little man. Speaking of which he is so cute this weekend. He has decided officially that we are going to build 6 new raised beds. 2 for flowers the rest for veggies. So needless to say we worked outside for two and a half hours. today, before I came home and started working on my projects for mom. Hence the look of being a lobster, several hours a day for 3 days when you haven't had much sun over the winter equals bad.....lol my new mantra.... just kidding. I wouldn't have changed any of it one bit :) I loved every minute of it. And look forward to more beautiful days ahead. I did plant some red onions, cosmic purple carrots and chinese red meat raddishes today. almost all of my salad veggies are planted. YUM!! I cant wait for a garden fresh salad!! well all this wonderful fresh air has me pooped! I am going to hit the hay. nite nite all.

More seeds!!!

WHOOOOHOOoo!! I just received my 1st shipment from Comstock and Ferre. I am so totally pumped :) And of course you know what that means. Yup more planting. The weather has been awesome the past couple of days and our extended forcast is pretty darn nice. no lower than 60 during the day for the next 10 days. can we say awesome!! To bad i am working on a cold. but ohwell I am not going to let it get me down....speaking of which what the heck am I still doing on the computer!! peace out! I am going to go play in the dirt :)

Spring Fever

We had an awesome weekend!!!! Saturday was warm and sunny. It was so nice to get out and work in moms "new" flower bed area. I got some more stuff started outside in Mini greenhouses and recycled starting containers. (plastic milk jugs and or soda containers this time around) and brought out my 2 new huge pots that I got on clearance for $7.oo at Home Depot. Gotta love last years stuff....lol I planted some arugala and Lettuce seeds in them. I cant wait. fresh from the garden salads are the best!! :) It was only supposed to be 65 but ended up getting up to 78. It was lovely. almost to hot because of the drastic change. lol but Sunday was scattered light rain. perfect for planting some bulbs and really wonderful temps again. I got moms flower beds all done except for her tiger lillys. which will be sometime next week hopefully. It is going to be so pretty when everything starts sprouting :) yesterday was cold and dreary. but today its supposed to be around 60 again and then 70s the rest of the week. ahhhh Its so nice. to bad it cant stay....but I will enjoy what i can get. I cant wait to start on her Butterfly garden. We have decided to how to move her butterfly bushes (they are just to intrusive against the house and next to the sidewalk) we are going to creat a circle garden were the top soil was dropped off a couple of years ago since its almost all gone now. It will be the first thing you see from the driveway and you can see it while sitting ion the porch. I am going to grade it all down. plant the 3 butterfly bushes and add some other plants for her hummingbirds and butterflys along with some sheperds rods to hold some extra bird and hummer feeders. I hope to add a birdbath and such to have her little bird paradice that we can see from the porch this summer :) I am really excited to do this project for her and I know she will just love it :) Of course this is helping me with my Spring Fever. I just cant wait to keep getting my hands dirty :)

Wish List:

Of course this is a seed wish List. There are so many differnt types that I would love to try :)

Asparagus:
Giant Argenteuil

Artichoke:
Green Globe

Watermelon:
black seeded Ice cream
Dessert King
Cream of Saskatchewan

Lima bean:
King of the garden

Herbs:
Chocolate mint
Lime Basil
Cinnamon Basil
Lemon Balm
Toothache plant
Veitnamese mint or balm
curled cress
watercress

Melons:
Ananas
Ananas D'Amerwe Achairverte
Green Nutmeg
Jenny Lind
Golden Honeymoon
Anne Arundal
Emerald Gem
Sweet Passion
Pride of wisconsin
sleeping beauty

Kale:
dwarf siberian

Rubarb:
Victoria

Flowers:
Canterbury bells
Chinese lantern
Snap Dragon
Nasturtium:Moonlight

Sorry these arn't in order, I wrote as I was remembering them. :)

Yesterday was awesome!!!

I met for lunch with a lady that I have met through my new craigslist endeavor. It was the best!!! We had a great time talking and getting to know one another and looking at seeds and The food was awesome! We went to the Green House Grille in Fayetteville (Arkansas) and it rocked! The best service and food quality I have had in ages. I highly recommend it. Back to the fun part...seeds and Gardening. I am going to start 20 different types for her along with the 32 other plants that i have already started for her. She is going to have an awesome garden this year :)
I am just hoping the sun will pop out here long enough for me to go inspect the raised beds for another lady. So I can help her plan her garden. She is a newbie, so this will be really fun. I just bought some more seeds From Baker Creek today, just a few. And a few From Comstock That I WAS dying to have....lol OK so yeah i still have some on my wish list, I think I am going to post my official wish list today on www.idigmygarden.com see if i can get a few of them. of course i just need a couple of each so we will see if i can trade for some or do an SASE. I will post more later!
TTFN

oopsy no new post for awhile

ok so the excuse is.....everytime i log on to post something my attention is taken else where....ooops.......its kinda like ooooooohhhhhh shinnnyy....lol j/k. But alot has been going on. I taught my daughters 2nd grade class about heirloom seeds couple of weeks ago and that was so much fun!!! they all got to plant and take home a cherokee purple tomato seed and a picnic watermelon seed. They all sent home Thank you letters on Friday and I teared up. most of their seeds have sprouted. And I couldnt be more thrilled. I cant wait to go back and do it again!! I had a idea this weekend that if I posted on craigslist to sell some heirloom plants. maybe i could share the wealth of a plant with some people and shair heirlooms with them :-) so far i have had 5 people contact me!!! whoooohooo!!! and its kinda turned into something more. I am so excited. I am going to help a first time gardener plan her raised beds, help another start her seeds that she already has along with selling her 32 of my own plants, and a few more. I am not making much at all but its a fun little extension of my hobby and giving me the pleasure of giving/helping people. and what can i say I am loving it!!! I Lost one of my in home health clients today so i will have a little more time on my hands for now. I was offered another client but I think the distance is going to be to far to accept with gas prices being so high. Its looking like waiting tables might be back in my near future. I was disapointed that i didnt make it to Baker Creek on Sunday for there opening festival. But I will do my darndest to go April 3rd :-) Well TTFN

More snow...ohh nooo....lol

Yup you read it right, we got more snow!!! Yuk! another foot of the stuff. We are having the weirdest winter here. we got a foot of snow yesterday and now its sunny out and supposedly the temps are just gonna keep rising. well come to think of it i am really ok with that ;) But I bet things are going to be a muddy mess this weekend. At least it doesnt look like we will start off our new growing season with a drought. To bad I couldn't convince my parents to get a rain barrel system in time......could you imagine all the water storage, from this crazy systems melt off. Well today I have been bad, I have watched way to much tv. but in my defense I am getting a little bit of cabin fever. I know my poor daughter is to. 2weeks with no school is really hard on a 7 year old. I think I am going to start some rosemarry and cilantro for my kitchen/window garden. That will keep me occupied for a little while. I saw a really neat slogan at wal*mart the other day. It was on there seed holders, it said for every $1 you spend on seeds you save $20 in buying produce. I am not sure if the math is right on that. I would think you would save more than that. However, it really makes you think.......wow even at $20 that is an amazing savings. just some food for thought.

Weekend.....

Yippi!!! We finally got out of the house yesterday afternoon. Wal*mart was just as bad if not worse than black friday though. GRRRRrrr. ohwell at least we got out. I got out this morning aswell. I was able to go see my "lil man" as I call the guy I take care of on the weekends. Then...it started raining on the way home....yuk...... It changed over to snow here, and as we were watching the 5:30 news the weather man was saying the rain would change over to snow at 9pm....lol as we were looking out at snow already. needless to say school is canceled yet again tomarrow.......*sigh* what a way to start the week. not sure if i will get out again before next weekend. I am starting to really miss my people. At least I picked up more seed starting supplys. I have enough to keep me busy for a lil while. hehe ;)

So being snowed in for the 4th day in a row. Not only do I have a bad case of Cabin fever,but my spring fever is now in high gear. I have planted a couple more seeds so far today. I just planted wonderberry aka sunberry. I am really looking forward to these. My snow pea, brussal sprout and cabbage babies are all doing well. Trinity is having a ball talking to them and noticing that they REALLY do grow bigger and faster after hearing kind words spoken to them :-) I am enjoying listening to some of my yoga meditation music while typing, its calming my nerves perfectly. after a little while I am going to plant some tomato's and herbs. I am so excited to be trying so many different heirlooms this year. I have been having a ball trading and talking to people on www.idigmygarden.com . everyone so far has been awesome! Trinity and I are even going to participate on the 1st ever kids train!! How cool is that. If you are interested in getting into some really great heirloom seeds, I highly recommend going to Baker Creeks website which is www.rareseeds.com I have had the best experience with them so far. and there catalog is absolutely beautiful. Its really hard to stick within your budget because you want to try everything. But that's were the trading seeds comes in really handy :-) This year I am growing seedlings not only for myself, but for my mother and my in home health care clients aswell. The tomatos that I am going to start today are Kelloggs breakfast which is a beefsteak tomato, Fox cherry tomatos and black oxhearts. I am waiting on some pinnapple tomatos, cherokee purples and a few others to still come in. Here is a list of what is going to be in our gardens so far. keep in mind that I have not started everything yet.
Trinity's garden:
Sunflowers
Watermelon- Picnic
marigolds (all different)
Love-In-A-Mist
Sweet pea's

My garden/ who ever wants these:
feverfew
dill
cilantro
oregano-wild zatar
oregano-
rosmary
cumin
echinacea
basil
fennel-Di Ferenze

hardy kiwi
sunberry

beet's- early wonder
Peppers- cayenne long thin, chinese 5 color,
Eggplant-ping tung
pumpkin-winter luxery
carrots-red cored chantenay
watermelon-ali baba, moon & stars (red fleshed), orangelo, sugar lump
parsnip-hollow crown
sweet dumpling
tennessee sweet potato
cucumber-dragons egg
Beans-dragon tongue

marrigolds
and any other flowers and a long list of wish listed veggies and fruits that i may end up trading for.
Ahhh!! life is good.........come on spring!!!! I am soooooooo ready.

oopsy

ooopsy! so I created this hmmmm about 2 years ago and completally forgot about it....lol well I shall start using it now :-) My intent is to just have some ramblings on here.....but we shall see what it turns into!