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It’s been forever since I’ve posted, I know (I know!). Busy summer and busy fall. We are finishing up the canning…just apples and squash left. I’ll post more on the garden totals next time. A really good harvest this year. [Read More]

Since moving to the Sow's Ear we have barely touched the yard. Our attention has been diverted to other areas such as the kitchen. It has also been incredibly dry the last few months, so it has not been an ideal time to plant. But in the last w [Read More]

Mother-in-law's Tongue plants are a noxious weed in Brisbane. It used to get dumped in and around the Brisbane River and bush areas when people were re-doing their gardens. As these West African natives grow for nothing, they suffocated the na [Read More]

Who stole all our grass?? We did. Yesterday, Saturday, we drove to our local hardware store in the morning and picked up a gas powered sod cutter. We had marked out with little white flags whe [Read More]

Today was mulch day. It was going to rain today and in case it rained hard, we wanted to prevent any erosion before the city delivered our free mulch. We drove to Madison and bought 15 bags of [Read More]

Since we cut the grass and created 4 new garden beds, we've only managed to get mulch onto the largest bed next to the road. The other three beds were in various states of disrepair. I put black landscape fabric down over most of the one closest to [Read More]

My poor garden's definitely been neglected this past summer. I think I applied Miracle-Gro maybe once.Still, the veggies are coming on in spite of me, and this year as in all gardening years I am continually amazed that I can go get food right out o [Read More]

I just got done priming half of the kitchen. The drywall half. It's taking me forever because I'm USING the kitchen all the time. For things like turning these sexy tomatoes and peppers into sauce! Mmmm...arrabiata...Maybe tomorrow after our little j [Read More]

As I reported last year, someone came and stole my peonies before I could even take a picture of them. They finally bloomed yesterday and I thought I'd go enjoy them (now that the rain stopped for 5 minutes) only to find that someone has AGAIN stolen [Read More]

Dad writes to tell of his plans for later this month, focusing on watering. It is coming into the hot season there... Email from Dad (2nd Nov)In three weeks time I have two days together, a Sat/Sun scenario, so will go up to Amherst.I will pump 1000 [Read More]

Our 11 year old likes to spend money. The town recently restarted the Saturday morning Farmer's Market. I'm always pulling up and thinning out the flower beds. So what better time for him to start earning some cash?Today was his second foray into the [Read More]

Many of you are receiving the same torrential downpours that St. Louis has been receiving lately. It seems like it rains for 3 days, is dry for 1 and then rains for another 3. While this makes enjoying Spring hard, it does bring lovely things to the [Read More]

My main effort over the past week or so has been weeding. I am beginning to get a better understanding of the garden and what is needed to keep it looking pleasant. How many flower beds are there? Two or three!! Well… actually ten! It is quite ama [Read More]

Do you use iGoogle? Now you can add a bit of the Prairie Rose House to your iGoogle home page. Just add our theme. The roses are starting to bloom so I might make some more iGoogle themes with them.Yesterday was our first official day of summer break [Read More]

I’m super-excited to be hosting the June 15th edition of Grow Your Own (GYO). Do you grow/raise/forage edibles? Well, I would love to hear you blog about it. Extensive rules below, but basically, send me the link to your blog post before June 1 [Read More]

The weather has changed again and it is nice to be outside. A lot of my time has been spent gardening, well weeding, pulling up huge amounts of buttercups and ‘going slimy’ bluebells. I cannot believe the mess that bluebells make once their flowe [Read More]

Putting in the garden.  Some of the plants got a little nipped by a rogue frost last week, but seem to have survived. We have doubled the size of the garden this year.  The DR Power Tiller has made this possible.  We have sections of the garden ar [Read More]

I know our loyal readers are eagerly awaiting our next post, so I wanted to share a few projects that we have going on. First up is the veggie garden. It has grown quite a lot with all of the rain. (Scroll down the page to see the photo when we pl [Read More]

All of these postings about building concrete walls, getting rid of a patio, etc...are probably leaving you wondering if anything was ever going to come of the construction zone. Well, I am happy to report that over the last few weekends, a lot has g [Read More]

Oh well phooey. I meant to make a post about digging two humongous holes and hauling tons and tons of old sandy dirt out and dumping tons and tons and tons of new compost and manure and peat moss and topsoil in, not to mention digging out the stump [Read More]