Me and Luna hung out today and sorted through some seeds that I will be planting this spring. She is always happy with whatever we are doing and doesnt complain. This spring I think that I might be going a little overboard with the amount of flowers but it’s always fun planting more each year. I am always saying I’m not going to plant as much but I end up with more every time. It’s always fun tying different flowers and vegetables and I learn more about what I like more from the previous years. I am going to be planting more zinnias and also I collected dahlia seeds from my favorite flowers to try growing some of my own for the first time. It will be fun to see what happens with those.
Blooms by Pam
Friday, March 28, 2025
Seed sorting and Planning the Garden
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Grow Tower Update
It’s blowing my mind at how much this tower has grown and how successful it’s been. Of course I expected it to work out well, but I had my doubts that I would be able to grow anything.
I have experience with traditional gardening but this was a stretch to try something different and I really wanted to see what hydroponics was all about. So far I really like it!
Friday, February 14, 2025
Winter Gardening indoors with Hydropics
I’m very surprised by it so far. I really had no idea that it would give me this much joy. One of the main things that attracted me to this type of garden is the self sufficiency that it could possibly bring. The way the food is currently priced and the amount of toxic chemicals on our produce, this was a no brainer when trying to decide if I was going through with it or not. I went all in! I set it up around December 30 and found that I had a broken part which took another few weeks to get a replacement, but it’s wonderful now. I’ve been harvesting greens to make salads off the tower for my lunches and dinners.
When there is a shortage of greens on the tower I’ve been substituting my greens with sprouts and microgreens which I’m also loving. This is very easy to do once you get the hang of it. I think the hardest part is staying on top of seed starts and doing it regularly as things do die off and need to be replaced often.
My unit is very tiny and I haven’t been able to grow anything really big yet, but I am so grateful for what I have been able to grow for myself within the last 2 months. I recommend this for anyone who wants to grow their own food indoors and has extreme winters where they cannot grow all year round. Also it’s just very cool to be able to just stand in the kitchen and cook and teach over and grab from the tower when you need something.
I am so glad that I gave this a try, it has really changed my life and added so much joy to my days when it’s snowing outside or cloudy and windy and just cold! There is not nearly enough sunlight, so anything to add some sunshine to my life is very important.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Overwintering Roses
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Growing Sweet Potato’s
One of the negatives to starting plants inside is that sometimes you have to deal with gnats which are very annoying. I’ve got several traps set up in the corners of my grow area to catch them. So far they work extremely well. I will keep updating on the progress on these as things change 😊
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Harvesting Valarian Root
Monday, November 18, 2024
2024 Tomato Harvest
This summer I planned on growing just a few tomato plants that I really love. But somehow a few that I love, turned into over 20+ tomato plants along the fence line mixed in with the flowers. Some new ones that I wanted to try and of course the usual favorites from last season. This has become a new process for me since I am so limited with space in the garden boxes I decided that if I plant one or two and then a flower and then a couple more and then another flower that it is technically not taking up space but sharing the space and they should both benefit from that. The flowers will attract the bees to further aid in pollination of the fruit and visa versa. I also decided that in doing this that Im not really taking up space and if they survive, it was meant to be. I also prepare for loss of new tender plants by over planting but I think this time almost everything survived.
The summer of 2023, I planted 12 San Marzano tomato plants in the large 4x6 raised bed and they were amazing but I had an over abundance of them that didn’t ripen until fall and I sort of felt overwhelmed when I wasn’t able to use them all to make sauces like I intended on early in summer. Instead I harvested them later in the season and only made a few batches and froze the rest of them whole. I skipped the San Marzano this year and stuck to my favorites which have always been the sweet cherry types and the heirloom variety that I can just eat right off the vine. My favorite out of all the heirlooms that I’ve grown so far is Paul Robeson. It has amazing flavor and so meaty and I love that in this tomato!! I love the marbling inside these tomatoes and the colors and textures are so stunning. One tomato that seems to always amaze me is the pineapple tomato. I don’t even remember planting that many this spring but I must have because I had so many of them. And they were not little, they were very large and looked like little pumpkins which were fun giving away and sharing with friends.
For the 2025 garden I may not grow the pineapple again, but if I do I will try and only grow one or two plants. I do love having a huge variety of tomatoes. The colors are so beautiful!

Seed sorting and Planning the Garden
Me and Luna hung out today and sorted through some seeds that I will be planting this spring. She is always happy with whatever we are doing...

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Last night after work all I wanted to do was lay in the grass and relax in the garden and enjoy the sunset. I was so focused on how nice it ...
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For the new spring garden I have been collecting some new varieties of flower seeds and vegetables to try. Varieties that I have never grow...
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This is such a cool thing that I discovered last summer in the zinnia flowers! Based right at the intersection of the leaf and the stem I fo...