Archive for the 'Gardening' Category
Once upon a time, I ordered a dwarf Cavendish banana plant from Park Seed on clearance for $4.95. It was cute. It had 6 little leaves poking out of a quart container. I put it in a bigger pot and moved it out to my apartment balcony with a southeast exposure.
My lil’ Nana got bigger, [...]
Down here in central Florida, it is already time to start our warm weather vegetable and flower seeds and to direct sow our cold weather vegetables. My indoor seedling nursery has not been set up yet, but I HAVE cleaned up the square foot garden, raked in more compost, and replanted with lots of leafy [...]
Origami Seed PacketsFor the crafty gardeners out there, I’ve scanned and posted two pages from my old Origami-A-Day calendar that feature instructions on how to fold your own origami seed packets. Way cooler than your typical cut and glue versions, and a nice way to while away a LOT of time if you want to make these [...]
April HappeningsI’m not ready to go into another challenge just yet, so I’ll just be chilling this month and working on getting into a maintenance groove. After the TT challenge (still need to take pics, but my digicam decided to die on me last week) and office competition (which my team won, by the way!), I [...]
Spring 2008 Garden PlansSo…I didn’t work out this weekend. Instead, DH and I dedicated Saturday and Sunday to Improving the Garden and Beautifying Our Outdoor Areas. Since this involved quite a lot of heavy lifting, digging of rock-embedded soil, laying down around 600 8″ brick pavers, weeding, and other fun activities in the Florida sun, I am counting [...]
2/27/08 Log: 6-Day Slim Down Day 2I went to bed too late last night and overslept this morning again, though I did get in my lower body weights first at home and, more importantly, stick to my meal plan, so I count it as a successful Tuesday. I’ll have to get in my workouts at lunch and after my last colored [...]
Make Your Own Recycled Self-Watering Gardening PotsLaura asked how I made the self-watering pop bottle pots in this photo:
The instructions can be found here: Topper’s Place - Pop Bottle Pots
It’s a quick project, and a great way to re-use all of those 2-liter diet soda bottles and milk cartons you might otherwise just toss out. I like to keep [...]
I donated blood yesterday after waking up late, so there was not much in the way of exercise after that! I did do a little bit of gardening over the weekend however, and kept the eats pretty clean.
140.0 lbs this morning due to the cheat meal lunch I had at a local diner with friends. [...]
