I love basil. Its heady, sweet smell is an instant reminder of summer, warm sunshine and tomatoes. During the winter months I purchase living basil (hydroponic) and come early March, it’s the first seeds that I start. Unfortunately, for the second year in a row, the beautiful flat of basil which I started and nurtured during the cold, wet spring has succumbed to just that…
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In addition to this blog, I keep an “old fashioned” garden journal – one I write in just about every weekend. I usually start writing in January – listing out the new seeds or plants I want to try – and wrap it up in October with the “most successful” list for that garden season. This year my January wish-list was…
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It’s been another cool, wet spring in north Idaho, but I think we are finally out of frost danger. The 50+ tomato plants that I started in early March have been hardening off in the covered hoop bed for about two weeks. We’ve been monitoring the overnight temperatures pretty closely with the help of a thermometer with a remote sensor and this…
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Madge and Helen check out the new neighbors. Our new girls have settled nicely into their brand new, one bedroom, starter home. It’s pretty exciting to move into a new house and get to know the new neighbors — especially when the old biddies next door are the “mother hen” type…so to speak. After much discussion on the type of pen we were…
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