I hope to get a garden giveaway up this evening. If you like upside down homegrown tomatoes, you might want to check back tonight.
This Garden is Coming Soon.
April 16th, 2009
Frank Schaeffer Book Giveaway!
Last Thursday I drove to Omaha, Nebraska to hear Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God and lots of other really great books dealing with the crazier end of the Christianity spectrum, speak. He did not disappoint. You can hear his talk at this link. If you start at about eleven minutes you can skip the introductions, although the minister of the church where Frank talked does give a brief, but interesting account of his own visit to L’Abri, the [...]
The Calvin Becker Trilogy
I was introduced to the writing of Frank Schaeffer via his book Crazy For God several years ago. I loved the book and wrote about it here. On that post, a reader left a comment asking me if I had read any of Schaeffer’s fiction books. I had not and I tucked that comment away in my brain in hopes that someday it would resurface at just the exactly right moment when I was in need of a new book [...]
A Holiday Make-Over for the Library
We hosted Thanksgiving this year. Twenty-seven of my husband’s closest relatives stayed at our house for four days. We went hiking and played board games and watched ballgames and went to the movies and The Oracle Known as Steve staged a coup and tried to take over my kitchen, but I bravely fended him off with a carving knife, a rusty old egg beater and a very pokey meat thermometer. And yet, even as he bled out from oozing puncture [...]
Random Weekend Photos
Because the Christmas tree photo was getting a wee bit tiresome.
Review of Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ”, with Boffo Giveaway Included
With mincing alacrity, Dear Charles takes on Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ” and startling questions arise!!!
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Do those things really work? (The upside down tomatoes that is, not the rasied beds.) I keep thinking the one advantage would be hanging them from the porch where just maybe the deer wouldn’t be able to chomp on them as often as I can!
bdaiss – I hope so!
I was just telling my husband we should try an upside down planter! I cannot wait to see the post!
I’ve heard that the upside down tomato plants work out really well. Your raised beds look really nice.
Whoa Nelly! We are just planning our garden here in the frozen tundra of Maine and of course and natch I want raised beds. But your raised bed is SO creative and inspirational. I am SO there on this design! I saw those dangly tomato planter thingys….very intriguing I must say!
I”ve heard that the topsy turvy tomato hanging thingies work really well. Did you know you could put 2 plants per thingy? And you could also use them for green peppers? I am so going to do this at my house!
That raised bed looks interesting…how are you going to mow inside it? Or are you going to make it a gravel path or something? Can’t wait to see what you do with it.
I’ve got two of those upside down tomato thingies that my mom bought for us. Now I’ve just got to figure out what I did with them. Next week is garden planting week here. I have no idea what to do, but Danny and Josh put in some raised beds for me.
Oh, I love your design layout! Very architectural! Now those tomato hangers – I wonder how our 2 Great Danes would react to those? I bet they’d whack their heads every time they walked under them. :)
Love the new site! My husband has been bugging me to buy one of those upside-down tomato planters.
I am so jealous of your garden beds! And of course, I would never be that creative if I actually got Joshua to build me those garden beds. :)