Favorite Things Friday #5

Square-Foot Gardening--the simplest way to garden. All I did was follow Mel Bartholomew's book and website and wala! I'm a gardener. I'm convinced the soil mixture is the secret: 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 vermiculite, and 1/3 of a variety of composts.

With a 4 x 4 foot square, we've planted:
onions, 2 varieties of lettuce, 3 varieties of tomatoes, beets, squash, radishes, beans, peas, cucumbers, and peppers! And our carrots have their own box that is a little deeper. We transplanted the tomatoes but everything else we started from seed.

Here are my radishes up close. Check back in a few weeks and I'll have tomatoes.

Favorite Things Friday #4

I have an unhealthy addiction to watching Gilmore Girls. 7 seasons sure takes a long time to watch. I've been checking out DVD's and watching them constantly...I mean constantly for 10 weeks now. These people and their lives have become REAL to me. They are people I know. Call them friends. Only it is pretty one-sided. Not pretty, IS one-sided. I'm gonna need to get my own set of these DVD's because this is going to become a yearly 3 or so month event. Had I an extra $200, I could buy the complete series on ebay. I need, I need...Hummmm, Mother's Day is coming up.