Tag: gardening

  • Bee-Friendly Gardens

    Bee-Friendly Gardens

    Become a pollinator steward and plant a bee friendly garden. Not only will you be helping the bees, you will also have a garden to envy with year-long blooms and an abundant vegetable harvest.

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  • Herb Garden

    Herb Garden

    When we moved into our house over sixteen years ago, we set out willy-nilly to landscape.   We had no plan.  We had a vision.   But, we had no plan. I wanted roses. We planted roses everywhere.  We built flowerbeds for roses around the house.  We planted climbing roses on our back fence.  We…

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  • Garden Update

    Garden Update

    I hope I am not jinxing our future harvests by sharing an emerging future bounty of apples, apricots, cherries, strawberries, tomatoes, and grapes….

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  • Radish Salad

    Radish Salad

    “If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, just wait a minute and it’ll change.” —Will Rogers This quote is just not another Rogers’ witticism.   Having lived in Oklahoma most of my life I know it is the honest to goodness truth. For example, on Sunday, January 26, 2014, it was 65+ degrees.  …

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  • The Garden Tour

    Over July 4th, we traveled to Iowa to see Mom, Sis and the boys (two nephews and a brother-in-law).      I have previously featured a few of their garden specimens for Abigail’s Virtual Flowers so if you are an avid reader, you may see some repeats. Mom and my sister’s family share a back…

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  • Roasted Carrot Hummus with Orange and Garam Masala

    Roasted Carrot Hummus with Orange and Garam Masala

    This is an exciting new hummus full of healthiness and Indian spices (which I worked into my Food ‘n Flix post for this month).

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  • The new green house.

    The new green house.

    Hopefully more veggies this winter.

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  • Garden Update (and a winning post) !!!!!!

    Garden Update (and a winning post) !!!!!!

    I don’t think I have posted anything about this season’s garden. Here it is!

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  • Last wine adventure (at least for the time being!)

    Our last adventure in our Wine Exploration series—-kind of a let down.

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