Category: Gardening


  • Canning tomatoes

    About every other year  I make my mother come over for a day of canning tomatoes.  I love to be able to make chili, lasagna or almost anything with our canned tomatoes.  I am trying to eat healthier and this will help with fresh tomatoes that we know what all is in the jar!  I…

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  • Holy MUM!

    Do you see this MUM! I planted it last year. It was a nice one from Memorial Florists and it has quadrupled in size. I know people have stated that i must have dead bodies in my garden for fertilizer because my plants always seem to be bigger than usual. I guess it must be…

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  • We went plant shopping

    Ann, Carol and I made our yearly trip to Honeymoon Acres in New Holstein, WI.  They have such wonderful plants at the most reasonable prices….Look at the size of the hanging basket Carol is holding…it was only $21…click on the photo…to see how beautiful it is…the next thing I have to rave about is how…

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  • Goofing off!

    I feel like I am sluffing off.  I am so used to having packed days of work, whether is be, sewing, book work, ordering, planning, organizing our next show, working on patterns, printing…I have my work done before we go off to Spring Market in Portland.  I promised myself that I would not do anything…

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