Taking a walk in the woods. Singing show tunes. Loving the green.
QTIP.

Rain Barrel Compost

This is our second compost. The first is a pile and this one is more of a bin. One of our rain barrels broke so I drilled holes in it and set it near the old pile. It has holes in the bottom for worms and it has a lid. At the moment there happens to be a cantelop sprout growin out of one of the holes.

Creepy Crawler

This little fellow has been hanging out on our back fence all summer long. It is as big as a bannana spider, but doesn't have the typical markings I'm used to seeing.

Garden Pic's

This is one of our squash blossoms. This is our butternut squash plant, one of many. They have been growing like crazy. Within the last 2 days they have bloomed beautiful yellow flowers in abundance. I was a little worried that the bed was over crowded, still am; however, today I noticed the first few squashes growing! I will get a pic soon!

Rain

It rained today! so that means more water for the rain barrels. We are currently using two rain barrels to water our gardens. We also have two drip systems set up to water two of the larger three beds. I need to set up a third, but I need to first figure out how to rig the system to a rain barrel. Thats a future goal.

Can't beat a beet!

Momma's first Beets. I really like the color of this plant. I actually ate fresh beets for the first time a week ago, so I am very happy I took a chance and planted these. Only two of the sprouts survived. Hopefully we will get a side dish out of these.

Compost Squash

Here is our compost pile. Beware what you throw in your compost. We now have a gaggle of butternut squash growing. We have a second compost that we are building up this winter and will transfer here in the spring, so we are letting this grow. I want to see if they will bare fruit.

Fall Garden

This is my fall garden. This is our first attempt at growing any winter veggies. We live in Florida, so its not really all that cold yet, 86' today. We typically get three growing seasons because of our long summers. We can plant earlier and continue planting longer.

This garden bed is something I threw together as an experiment. We found a guy who was cutting down around 70 trees from his property. We salvaged some of the larger discs he'd cut and used them to make a bed. We added potting soil and lots of our own compost.

Planted: Acorn squash, butternut squash, broccoli, red leaf lettuce, strawberries, basil, beets, and carrots. Off to the side, in pots, I have: tomatoes, chives, spinach, and lavender.

Our pumpkins

These are the pumpkins that made it to our house this year!

What we are using

This product is from Method (image from drugstore.com). This is the eco friendly daily shower cleaner we are using. It smells like ylang ylang and cuts down on soap scum.

Been a while

I've been trying to figure out what to do with this blog. Is it just about living green? Should I start a new blog about gardening? Can I keep up with this? Well, i've decided to make it a truly green blog..that means gardening also. So, I will discuss living a green life and gardening. Same format...more varied content. So..more to come.