The Cleanse: Week 1
The first week of a four week cleanse is now behind me. The first two days were pretty rough, as I had an amazing headache from caffeine withdrawal. Day 3-7 was a juice diet, where you can eat any fruits and veggies, but they must be pureed. About Day 4 was when I actually started...
Starting Seeds
This weekend I spent a couple hours having a craft party with myself, getting the newspaper seed pots formed and filled with organic potting soil. They have been planted and are neatly resting on my beautiful, old record player. I enjoyed the last of Joni Mitchell’s Blue album before closing up the record player until...
The Cleanse
I’m doing a cleanse. Yes, a rid-your-body-of-toxins-hippie-cleanse-detox-thing. It’s hard to say when this idea came about for me, but it was at least a couple years ago. The idea of going on a restricted diet, with no processed foods, seemed like an interesting way to make a fresh start on spring. In general, I tend...
Woven Fence
I was looking through Gayla Trail’s book You Grow Girl the other day and dreaming about gardening projects. It’s early enough to start seeds indoors, but I have been dying to be out in the short hours of brisk sunlight getting my hands muddy. One of her projects in particular, the woven fence, caught my...
Experimenting with Propagation
Last Fall, my grandmother gave me some cuttings from a hydrangea shrub. She advised me to make a fresh cut, dip the end in water, dip in rooting hormone, and stick in the ground. This seemingly too-simple-sounding method of propagation worked well for her last year. I planted about eight cuttings around the yard with...
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