Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening on Oct 31st, 2009
Right now I am eagerly awaiting the first 2010 seed catalog. Friends have already received some of theirs. Oh well, it won’t be long now and I’ll be wading through the “wish books” for next years’ garden. I look forward to trying new vegetables and flowers every year so this is a much-anticipated annual ritual. [...]
Posted in Gardening on Oct 30th, 2009
Last year I started what was intended to be a butterfly garden, but which has since morphed into the Wild Garden. Oh, it still attracts lots of butterflies. But shortly after planting it I discovered it attracted much more. The bees arrived long before the butterflies found it. They loved the catmint blossoms, which happened to [...]
Posted in Recipes on Oct 29th, 2009
I’m still tweaking a recipe for healthy banana bread (all suggestions are welcome), but my wife has a great recipe for smoothies and has kindly allowed me to share it. It’s a summertime favorite for busy mornings. We make our own yogurt, but any plain yogurt will do for this recipe. We also use powdered stevia [...]
Posted in Gardening on Oct 26th, 2009
Though I’m a child of the 60’s this is not a revolutionary counterculture kinda rap. No, I’m thinking about the changing of the seasons this morning – literally. It’s Officially Fall here. The leaves are changing, the air is crisp and cooler, and we’ve already had our first light frost (or two). The West Side [...]
Posted in Gardening on Oct 24th, 2009
It’s garlic planting time here at Happy Acres. I got ours planted last week, on a rare (for 2009) dry day. For those not familiar with growing garlic, it is usually planted in the fall and harvested the next summer – normally sometime in July here in southern Indiana. Since it spends so much time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2009
Today I made my first blog. Doesn’t that sound vaguely like a confession uttered at a twice-weekly meeting of geeks like me trying to kick their self-destructive computer habits? It’s not like I am computer illiterate, or averse to technology. Rather, after spending many years working in the IT field (more years than I care [...]
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An organic gardener shares his thoughts about gardening, nature, food and being self-sufficient.
