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What can I still plant?
The end of June is just around the corner and you are wondering if it is too late to plant. This depends on where you live. If you live in the Northwest, your season is just getting started. If you live in the Southeast, your growing season is well underway and will just keep on going. Here in downtown Raleigh,…
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The importance of interplanting and biodiversity in the vegetable garden
Companion planting, or interplanting is the practice of growing crops together so that one or both may be benefited by the presence of the other or planting crops together that at the very least won’t commit unspeakable crimes on each other. Conventional home garden methods are to plant crops in orderly blocks or rows, which makes navigation and harvesting much…
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The way cheaters make fancy pancakes
My two blackberry bushes have started producing a couple of ripe berries here and there, and since they are rather tart and I’m not a fan of the seeds, I’ve decided to tuck them in to Wookie’s birthday peach cobbler. It was pretty yummy in my biased and rather uncultured opinion. Having fun with berries brings me to my faux…
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Friday Freak Show
Friday morning, and the boys are still in their beds. There’s a five hour countdown until the appraiser comes, and from what we know, there’s a 50-50 chance he will actually come inside the house. We aren’t moving – just refinancing, hopefully. On the 50% chance he does, I painted the master bath. What’s even more amazing than the fact…
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Orange Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Scones
Over the past couple months, I’ve developed a scone fetish and I’ve been plotting my first attempt at baking scones on my own. To pay $3 a scone every weekend at the Farmer’s Market and on weekdays when I get overcome by a hankerin’ would be too much damage to the bank account. After browsing Pinterest and Allrecipes, I pieced…
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In Bloom: Cucumber
I wish I could tell you the exact cultivar, but I planted three or four different kinds and didn’t remember to label them!
