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Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2016

Gardening...

I have a close friend who chuckles at me!
I tend to say whatever is on my mind.

She was looking for the fat free half and half, and I simply stated... I don't understand, the whole point of half and half is it is half heavy cream and half regular milk!  How can it be fat free?

While I choose not to use 1/2 & 1/2 I sure can't take regular milk in my coffee; and if you expect me to use skim you have got to be crazy!  I'll drink it black like my grandparents did (a left over from sugar rations during WWII)  Yes as a vegan I was trying to use almond milk but it truly aggravated my throat and made me burp too much for comfort!  I refuse to use soy, and coconut is just too sweet for my taste.  I do enjoy hemp milk but... as usual I digress~!

My point of bringing this up is low fat, non fat half and half is a bastardised product.  You think your drinking a better for you cream when in fact its so much worse for you it's ... well a crap storm of a product doing no telling what to your poor body!

I find it funny I can come to these conclusions myself about something as simple as half and half BUT never thought about it as applied to my garden!

YES my garden.

As of late I have had TWO books I can't seem to put down, leave alone and not refer to everyday.

The first being  Integrated Forest Gardening...


ONE of the best and greatest books on gardening I have ever come across.  It is helpful, insightful, and gives examples we all need when getting started with a newer, fresher, and different way of thinking of our gardens.

It is the simple, provoking, and common sense of each of these books I am stunned I have never thought in this manner when it come to ... DIRT and ALL it consist. 

Why it is I can say fat free half and half makes no sense but I expect a man made chemical fertilizer to make real food? 

FAKE fertilizer must give me fake food!  Meaning If I feed my veggies chemicals they are going to contain or consist of chemicals.  SO now I am building up my soil, dirt, and compost with nothing but bacteria, fungus, hummus, and mulches for compost or area needs.  

It is funny how you can read a book a hundred times but you take on something new each time because you are in a different place of your journey each time you open, close, or share a book with anyone.  



Monday, July 5, 2010

The Garden...

I have allowed the sunflowers to take over HALF of the garden! Why because as the birds eat the seeds the seed hulls KILLS everything on the ground.  NOT to mention they don't allow much sun for the weeds to grow either.


There are several types of sunflowers in my little collection..

The Garden from the back porch...
As you can see they are thick and TALL and bountiful... I'll have to save LOTS of heads for the estate... wish me luck.
A flower in the garden area too be... on the estate.  Wish me luck in saving these guys... Although I have no idea what they are they were beautiful... but I have not had the time or the camera with me in order to show them to you.
it was a little TOO snakey???? in order for me to stick around and walk around with no shoes in order to get the two shots I have.  I'll try again on a day I have on boots and long pants.
When I get back from Yellowstone, it will be time for me to brake out the tiller once again and start in on my fall and winter gardens... wish me luck!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Another Day... in the life of Amber?

Broccoli is incredible this year... Sweet perfectly developed with... the morning (mountain)  due still present.
                                                             
Basil is doing well ... I have to have at least one plant for every tomato plant this year I have 6 of each.




Tomato plants are doing well if I can keep the bugs away and the water regulated...

I added Poppies... to the garden this year as a test subject... these are the ones that are standard on the side of the interstate systems in TN and NC (at least)


Ending with my poor boots.  I hate spending money on boots but if I keep up at this pace I will need another pair of boots for the winter.