I have been walking my children to school every morning, waving them off and continuing on to enjoy the crisp morning, and taking in the c...

  Harvest, harvest, harvest! I absolutely LOVE the look of cherry trees in the spring time.  Beautiful flowers that jump start the tran...

I have several herbs that come back every year throughout my garden beds.  This year, my peppermint patch has been pretty hardy even w...

(Rhubarb) Not sure why it is, but every year at this time, I find it's always a bit hard for me to blog.  Maybe it's because I...

I have often heard from my friends that they never have luck at growing basil. I, on the flip side, have always been very lucky that it flou...

It's January and we're eating freshly picked tomatoes off our hydroponic setup in our basement. Lovely huh? However, this will be t...

I have been slowly working through our harvest. Unfortunately, my basement isn't cold enough to keep my vegies fresh long enough, so I ...

The frost that hit us the last week caused a big harvest of vegetables and fruit at our home. I thought I'd share the HUGE tomato my hu...

We have an absolutely stunning tree in our back yard. It's a 50+ year old Linden Tree. (Also called Basswood, Tilia or Lime Tree). Eve...

What? You thought I was joking about the eating of lots of salad greens this week? HA! I'm not kidding you. I gained a solid 4-5 poun...

You say Arugula, I say Rocket. Well, I say either really, especially once I learned they are in fact the same thing. Apparently, this sala...

My hubby had come home with a large variety of seeds the year before, gearing up for the growing season. Up until last year, I had hardly e...

Hi all! My hubby, as I call him on my blog, does a lot of baking and gardening at our home too. He often does the things I'm not so int...

There was frost outside this morning. f-r-o-s-t. I'm glad we picked a bunch of tomatoes this last week. I haven't checked on the ...

...straight from my backyard. Thought I'd share a picture of my apples, a nice end to Applesauce Week. I'm a wee bit sad because my ...

Got my first crop of basil. Yummy! I've had lots of luck with basil last year and I used it often so I thought I'd get the hubby to...

well, not outside it isn't. But in my basement it is! The hubby has started his seedlings a couple of weeks back. He has a "grow-...

So, don't be deceived by this picture. You see the tomato on the right, the "smaller" one. That's a large size tomato you ...

My hubby, he's the gardener around here. Like the shirtless gardener you will find on Desperate Housewives, except he truly is focus...