So, I grew up with a Dad who always gardened and cooked, and I want to be like that too! So my self-assigned project for next spring is to create a container garden. I have been looking up ways to make really inexpensive earth boxes (roughly $5.00 to make one, rather than $50.00 to buy one) and upside down hanging planters.
You can pretty much grow any vine vegetable upside down. From what I read, diseases and parasites have a harder time getting to the plants when they are off the ground... So we will see how that goes. Here is a list of the things I want to plant:
1. Raspberries
2. Blueberries
3. Zucchini/Squash
4. Cucumber
5. Habanero/Jalapeno
6. Tomatoes (duh!)
7. Runner/pole beans
8. Red peppers
9. Lettuce (green leaf/romaine)
10. Kale (I LOVE kale soup...)
11. Carrots
12. Potatoes (might be harder, but they should grow in an earth box.)
13. Arugula (I love this. It's like peppery spinach. So good on pizzas...)
14. Eggplant
15. Broccoli
I know it is a ton of stuff, and my list will probably be edited quite a bit depending on the space I have when the time comes. I want to start preserving my own food for the winter. We will see how it goes!!
But I am SO excited.... Only eight more days until I take my trip back to Columbus. Mike and I are camping all the way across the country. My Chevy Cavalier is literally FILLED to the brim. This is going to be interesting....
Tuesday, July 20
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Monday, July 5
Some inspirational things!
This weekend I ran down to the second hand book store around the corner, and guess what I found! A copy of R.L. Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. It has all the same Jessie Wilcox Smith illustrations as the copy I had when I was younger. This was truly my favorite poetry book when I was a little girl. The Land of Counterpane was my favorite!
Also, I was looking at animation blogs earlier, and it made me think of what my favorite Disney short was when I was little. I can honestly say it is "Thru the Mirror." It played on our VHS of Alice in Wonderland in the beginning before the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo8DWMo4aw8&feature=related
And this made me laugh....
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