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
The Family That Prays Together, Strays Together
Throughout my life, prayer has played various roles depending on how holy I was feeling and how much I believed. When I was in high-school, college and on up through my twenties, I prayed all the time. I had this non-stop running conversation with God going on in my head. I prayed for friends, relatives and co-workers. I prayed for the people that I knew who were dabbling in Buddhism, vegetarianism, feminism and environmentalism that God would save them from [...]
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – A Fun Summer Read
I recently finished the book Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen. When I first saw this book, I immediately assumed that it would be awful. I imagined a schmaltzy story where a former career woman comes back to her Mennonite roots and rediscovers love in a pasture. But that was not the story at all. Instead it is a non-fiction account of one woman who returns home to her Mennonite community after decades of living with an [...]
Pepper Plagues, Post Nuclear Disaster Cucumbers and A Peasant Tomato Uprising
There have been a lot of ups and downs with my garden this year. I have been battling bugs for months attempting to stay organic by handpicking the eggs and the bugs and spraying homemade garlic oil, neem and dish-soap on my plants, but after several weeks of this laborious regimen, I went out to my garden to find a new crop of squash bugs crawling all over my patty pan squash and pumpkin vines and in a fit of [...]
Weeds in Wheelbarrow
I gotta barrow, gotta barrow full of sunshine… Sorry. It was really late when I wrote that caption.
If Life Hands You Wax Lemons, Make Wax Lemonade
Dear Charles, I sometimes think that the whole world is made of wax… except for the people, who are made of regular old people material. On the off chance that the world is not made of wax, what do you suggest? I grow tired of scooping the waxen air out of my way and typing on a waxen keyboard only to grow hungry and be faced with either a wax apple or a waxy bowl of cornflakes. Remember those tiny [...]
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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. :)