Here I sit waiting for the first flakes to drop as we wait for March to come in like a lion here in Northern NJ. With a winter like this, one can only continue to dream about what it will be like to begin digging in the soil. I remember when I was a young [...]
Last year I decided to buy some blinds for our bedroom…our old ones were a dark brown color, and I wanted to brighten the room, so purchased white vinyl blinds, only to find myself squinting when the sun rose very early in the morning…challenging for a night person like myself! At the time, I had [...]
One of my other interests besides gardening is going to auctions, especially vintage book, paper, and historical document auctions. Recently I was going through a box of items that I’d purchased about a year ago, and came across 2 relatively hard to find books written in the 1970′s about making dye from plants, and then [...]
All of us are concerned about our environment and how to improve it…especially those of us who love to get our hands in the soil.Have you ever measured what kind of impact you are having on the environment? Click the banner above or below, and calculate your “carbon footprint”. I encourage you to sign up [...]
Over the past couple of years, our town has formed a sustainable gardening group, and have taken a plot of unused land in our Township, and turned it into something useful and beautiful. There is also a beautiful “island” of flowers in the middle of the traffic light interchange in the middle of our town [...]
