Our seedlings are indeed seedlings!

As usual I’m a bit overdue to write about what is happening with our little seedlings – but what can you do? I did take some photos of them on March 18th which was about a month after they’d been planted. As you may notice, the zucchini were...

What we got from Burpee

So I’ve mentioned that we got seeds from Burpee a few times now…and you may be wondering what we ordered…so here goes – it’s a LONG list, I know. But the seeds there cost a fraction of the price here, especially for chili seeds so even...
Starting seeds in newspaper pots

Starting seeds in newspaper pots

Because this is a blog about becoming more self-sufficient and “green” in general, I had a brain storm…well it actually resulted when I was feasting on the Burpee seed catalog and noticed a little gadget they have to assist in the making of newspaper...

Burpee seeds are on their way…

I FINALLY placed our order today for a huge collection of Burpee seeds. Athough this will be our first experience with them, I’ve heard fantastic things and found so many things in their catalog that I wanted to try out. It’s mostly tomato and chili plants...

Let there be a lettuce fest!!

After the first 12 lettuce plants we had were promptly eaten by slugs as soon as they hit the ground, we have decided that we are not yet ready to give up. I mentioned before that we found some lettuce plants at Sunflower garden center two weekends ago and we have...