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Gardening Tips: Easy to grow vegetables

March 31, 2011 | 4 Comments
tomatoes.new

Growing your own vegetables is not only a great way to save money but it can be a fun activity for the whole family. Although we added a lot of landscaping and flowers to the front of our home last year, it has been several years since we put a vegetable garden in. Our back… [Continue Reading]

The Pumpkin King

October 20, 2010 | 14 Comments
Scarecrow Pumpkin.1

Fall! It’s the time of year to decorate, bake, visit the orchard for apples, pick a pumpkin from the patch, dress up in your favorite costume and go Trick-or-Treating, Boo the neighbors…and well, of course, build a Pumpkin King!! On Monday, when I shared our Menu Plan for the week, I teased you a little… [Continue Reading]

My Sweet Potato Vine Whine

August 5, 2010 | 23 Comments
Potato Vine.3

Let me share with you my Love/Hate relationship with My Sweet Potato Vine! Oh how I Love Sweet Potato Vine! They really are beautiful and their lime green leaves really make any planting pop! They are super easy to grow, in fact, a little too easy. Add a little fertilizer and you get this… Yes! This… [Continue Reading]

Landscaping ~ Creating Curb Appeal

July 18, 2010 | 43 Comments
Window Boxes

Making the outside of our home beautiful and creating curb appeal is very important to me. My love for flowers and landscaping comes from my parents. They had a beautiful yard and my Mom was a florist for 40 years. This is our second Summer in our home, and last year, we never got around to working… [Continue Reading]

Antique Watering Can with Flowers

June 24, 2010 | 33 Comments
Watering Can

Antique Watering Cans are some of my favorite decorating items. I use them indoors during the Winter, and I add flowers to them during the Spring, Summer and Fall months. Recently while landscaping the front of our home, I put together my  Antique Wagon and planted flowers in it. After that little project was done, I… [Continue Reading]

Gardening with Antiques

June 16, 2010 | 45 Comments
Wagon.2

I couldn’t wait any longer to share my wagon with you! I’m just so tickled with how it turned out. We have been working on the front of our house for a couple months, landscaping, painting, and planting flowers. More to come on that soon… If you’ve been around here, you probably know that I’m… [Continue Reading]

Freezing Sweet Corn

August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments
Freezing Corn

In our town, we have a Farm Market/Orchard that has been in family business for 100+ years. In the fall we enjoy picking apples at the orchard and during the summer months, especially right now, we enjoy their sweet corn. They even have a Corn Card, yep, you guessed it, buy 6 dozen corn and… [Continue Reading]