This season is looking to be one of the biggest for me since my community garden days. One of the more reasuring things though, is that a lot of what I'm planning on doing, I've already done. A few things I'm trying new, but for the most part, I plan on exercising some past activities.

AEROGARDENS I have 2 of these and a wall mount that I never ( Read more... )

Last night, prepped 6 more Jiffy peat pellets for: chives, dill and greek oregano (2 each). So far, I should be on-track with my plan.
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It's been a little hectic around here, mostly trying to get to-do lists done and trying to take a break when we can ( Read more... )

I want to post (and post pix) on:
Saturday, 9/30... Jana's b-day with her grandparents
Sunday, 10/1 ... our trip to Soergel's Orchards to go pumpkin picking
Planting garlic, posting crazy garlic plan
Banana tree has a pup! Gotta get a photo, it's really cute.
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Jana helped me harvest just over a half pound of basil tonight. There's still more to harvest off the one plant in the bed closer to the steps. We gave a quarter pound of it to neighbors and a couple of cut stems to the new neighbor ( Read more... )

Ok. I want to try to build a homemade solar dehydrator (Another link). I have lots of basil and am not a big fan of pesto. Plus, I'm guessing this will help me with seed saving ( Read more... )

I just put some basil in the oven for drying. I used tips from this website, looks like a really nifty site!