Jumping up and Down...

Posted on 2006-Jan-31 at 09:17

We are getting our fence. We are going to be making a living fence. It will be similar to these living fences. But ours will be made from a chain link fence. We will have ivy growing on most of them. I think that we will be add some pole beans as well. There will also be some climbing roses on it. I am soooooooo excited. Just in case you can't tell.

A Family Favorite...

Posted on 2006-Jan-17 at 03:21

Macaroni and cheese(with crusts)

Taco Pinwheels

Posted on 2006-Jan-17 at 03:17

We had this for lunch today. They are great! I can't remember where I got the recipe from so I cannot give proper credit.

Taco pinwheels

4 oz. cream cheese

3/4 c taco meat

1/4 c shredded cheddar cheese

1/4 c salsa

2T chopped onion

2T mayo

2T chopped olives

5 flour tortillas

Mix all & spread on tortillas. Roll tight. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Slice into 1-inch pieces & serve with more salsa.

Happy Cooking :)

Questions on our garden

Posted on 2006-Jan-13 at 07:17

I would like to grow strawberries. I was wondering if I could grow these in containers. If so what type would be the best. My second question is about potatoes. I would like to grow them, but dh thinks that they need alot of room. Could I possibly grow them in a small area?

Here is what we as a family have decided to grow in our garden:

grape tomatoes

regualr tomatoes

cucumbers

peppers

hot peppers

carrots

pumpkin(the kids want to do this one)

corn

watermelon

onions

Herbs:

garlic

basil

sage

stevia(if possible)

oregano

Next step we are going to do a paper layout of our garden. Then we will start on the front of the house so that we can get the azalea bushes out. I think that will take the better part of a month to get all of them out on dh's days off.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Help needed

Posted on 2006-Jan-13 at 07:15

We seem to have a cat that hangs around our house that is in heat. I think that it is in heat it is making some screeching noises at all hours of the day. Does anyone have any advice? I tried to go outside and make sure it wasn't in pain or anything, but I couldn't find it. It spent about 4 hours last night 'singing'. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Chrissy

My small garden

Posted on 2006-Jan-10 at 01:55

Dh decided to make us a compost box. He got free(don't you just love that word?) pallets from the local newspaper. He then cut them to the same size and made a box. Here is it :)

This was our garden last year.

As you can tell we have an open yard, that will hopefully be solved this year with taxes. :) We had most of our tomatoes and green peppers stolen.  I am hoping that this year that won't be a problem. 

Here is a picture of one of our transplanted blueberry bushes.

They are tearing down the trees where there are close to 50 wild blueberry bushes near us. So we went and got 2 bushes for our backyard. We are hoping that they will grow. We might go back and get more bushes in the spring(if there are anymore left). They also have the muscadine grape vines growing where they are building a road, we might try and get those to grow along our fence.

Is it just me?

Posted on 2006-Jan-7 at 07:13

Do you also get lost in seed catalogs? Do you sit there planning the ultimate garden? I had soo much fun yesterday looking at seed catalogs online. I wish we had a bigger area to garden in. We are talking about expanding our garden so that we can grow some more things. My oldest son(7) told us yesterday that he is "ready to have his own flower garden". Of course the other 2 chimed in saying that they were also ready. I think that we are going to do some square foot gardening with the children for their flower gardens. We are going to keep them out front. We need to remove some rather large azalea bushes. I have no idea how we are going to do this. When they cleaned up the yard next door it took a truck to get the roots out of the ground.  I would also like to change my front walk, but I don't know.

Time to start planning the garden

Posted on 2006-Jan-6 at 09:12

We need to start planning the garden. It is January here, but I know that there are some things that need to be done. I want to turn my garden over. We had one last year it was a nice little garden. We did learn a couple of things. The most important is that birdhouse gourd will take over a garden. It took over the entire garden. We didn't stake the tomatoes soon enough and some of the went bad :( We also learned that our neighbors liked to take our tomatoes and green peppers. Yes, we had them stolen. This was my children's project and well...needless to say there were some unhappy campers. This year we will be installing a fence. I will make another post about that. It is going to be soo neat!

Things that I would like to try:

corn(again)

bell peppers

cherry tomatoes

regular tomatoes

an herb garden

onions

carrots

cucumbers

mushrooms?? I don't know if these would work or not.

I am not sure what else. I need to look through a catalog I think. So any advice for someone who doesn't have a huge backyard?

Hi :)

Posted on 2006-Jan-4 at 06:49

I thought that I would take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Chrissy. You might know me as cudltot over on homeschoolblogger. I have debated on joining here, because we don't have a farm...not yet. It is now one of our goals to get our own farm where we can produce our own food. We are also trying to eat more organic foods now. 

This year we plan on expanding our current garden and taking advantage of the local farms that let you pick your own berries :)

I also love to sew, would love to learn to knit. I am also learning to make my own bread.

I look forward to getting to know everyone here.