Archive for the 'Gardening' Category

TT W7D4: Mmm…Veggies

It’s that time of year again–time to get going with another season of veggie gardening to supplement my heavy vegetable addiction. Actually, it’s BEEN that time of year since November when winter failed to turn up. My Brazilian oval orange eggplant which produced only one measly fruit all last year due to a persistent hornworm [...]

It’s That Time Of The Year Again

So I guess I should disable the timers on my soaker hoses for the next few days, eh?Chris and I went on a road trip up to Marietta, Georgia to hang out with his father’s side of the family for his father’s 64th birthday. We drove up on Friday in my new (used, 52k miles, [...]

Lots of seed envelope patterns

I’ve rediscovered my love of Adobe Illustrator and have made some more cut-and-glue seed packet envelope patterns for the heck of it. Here’s a shot of the small flower printed envelopes: More previews are available here: http://maggiewang.com/photos/Gardening-Projects Seed envelopes, small, blank 6 envelopes per 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper, blank so you can add [...]

Miss Maggie Had a Garden

I’ve been saving a bit of money on fresh, organic produce lately because my experiment in square foot vegetable gardening has gone from this: To this: And finally, to this: This is the coolest present my boyfriend has given me yet. It’s like a pet and a science project all rolled up into one big [...]

Seed Starting Chart Correction

Many thanks to Melanie for letting me know about two errors in the formulas in my Lazy Gardener’s Seed Starting Chart spreadsheet. The dates for planting tomatoes and tomatillos were being calculated incorrectly as 1-2 weeks before the frost-free date instead of 1-2 weeks after as they should have been. If you downloaded the spreadsheet [...]

Eat, Workout, Work, Garden, Sleep, Repeat

So much to do, so little time to blog these days. I’ve been neglecting my public fitness logs since I can’t really report anything I’m doing while working with Kim anyway. I’ve been ticking off the days on my plan, making diet and workout changes when directed, and generally running on autopilot on the fitness [...]

2006 C1D57: Not so perky

I was lax this weekend with my diet between the out-of-town wedding I attended with Chris on Saturday and the dinner with Chris’s family that was sort of sprung on me at the last minute on Sunday. Between those two cheat meals and the usual water weight gain of PMS, Kim was not so thrilled [...]

2006 C1D40: Garden Mania

After a six weeks of near-neglect, my birthday veggie garden has exploded to life. I spent several hours on Saturday and Sunday this weekend puttering around outside harvesting my first batch of radishes, replanting squares, staking climbing plants, transplanting some peppers and tomatoes, taking lots of pictures of green stuff, and getting my first minor [...]