NwMtGardener
Garden Addicted
I got my water feature set up on the patio today, which means it's officially summer to me!! Made a trip to the garden store "just" to get potting soil to repot some things...I did pretty good, escaped with only 4 small plants!! A licorice something, a sweet potato vine, chocolate mint and a coleus, because they're so beautiful. Here are some pics of everything spruced up.
The shady corner of the patio - our garage has a little room off the back, my garden shed, and I like to tuck a lot of plants in the shade there, along with my tiny water feature.
The little pond has a bubbler to keep mosquitoes away.
My new herbs, with the regular garden in the background.
I also made dandelion lavender jelly this week, another sure sign of summer! I had these dandelions in the freezer for a month or so, till I had time to get around to making the jelly.
And here's a new addition to our house, a pantry nook! We completed this project over memorial weekend, we removed an old window that looked from our dining room into the utility room and furnace! The shelves are awesome, deep enough to hold all my huge pots and larger kitchen stuff like blenders, and TONS of canned goods, and my seeds and cookbooks. Now I just need to get to work canning!! This has been such a nice addition, before I used to keep all this stuff in the utility room itself...well the furnace is dirty and everything would get covered in dust and grime!! So much work to wash everything before I could use it. This is awesome! Also cut a lot of lavender recently, which is drying over the shelves.
The shady corner of the patio - our garage has a little room off the back, my garden shed, and I like to tuck a lot of plants in the shade there, along with my tiny water feature.
The little pond has a bubbler to keep mosquitoes away.
My new herbs, with the regular garden in the background.
I also made dandelion lavender jelly this week, another sure sign of summer! I had these dandelions in the freezer for a month or so, till I had time to get around to making the jelly.
And here's a new addition to our house, a pantry nook! We completed this project over memorial weekend, we removed an old window that looked from our dining room into the utility room and furnace! The shelves are awesome, deep enough to hold all my huge pots and larger kitchen stuff like blenders, and TONS of canned goods, and my seeds and cookbooks. Now I just need to get to work canning!! This has been such a nice addition, before I used to keep all this stuff in the utility room itself...well the furnace is dirty and everything would get covered in dust and grime!! So much work to wash everything before I could use it. This is awesome! Also cut a lot of lavender recently, which is drying over the shelves.
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