“There’s no way of eating a gooseberry that isn’t a divine experience.”~Monty Don I love Big Dreams, Small Spaces. I’ve seen it a billion times, but it’s still usually on my TV to keep me company when I’m home alone. (It’s on Netflix, so if you haven’t seen it, you should go watch it!) Everyone is just so cheerfully enthusiastic about gardening, especially the host (and “Britain’s favorite gardener”), Monty Don. There’s a moment in the first episode of the second season where Monty in trying to convince his garden mentee to buy a gooseberry as he gets really excited Read More
Category: Easy Peasy
How I Made My Grow Light Stand
In a perfect world with unlimited funds my gardening adventures would be Instagram worthy all the time. I like to garden pretty. You can garden on the cheap, but often that means you sacrifice aesthetics. There’s nothing wrong with that if it doesn’t bother you. But for me, it does. Neat and tidy things please me (I can hear my mother laughing across the country. She might have a different experience of me…). But here’s my problem. I don’t have a lot of money. And I don’t have a ton of natural sunlight shinging in any of my windows. Growing Read More
Earth Day Sapling
Yeah, yeah. Earth Day was back in April, I know! But this is something that is still making me smile. I just so happened to stop by our local Rosauers for groceries that day. When I walked in, they had a big display table set up for Earth Day offering free ponderosa pine saplings. I have a hard time passing up free stuff anyway (I thought about grabbing two…), but I immediately thought of all my garden beds that need filling. So I adopted a sapling! Seriously, so cute! So the instructions on the bag (which I composted, thank you Read More