(This post was updated on May 8, 2023) These are my tips about growing Japanese maples in containers. I have had a potted Japanese maple for 5 years now, and it gets more beautiful every year. Years ago I had a gardening magazine with an article about growing trees in containers. The idea intrigued me….
When I bite into one of my homegrown tomatoes, there’s this moment when the juice squirts into my mouth that is just exquisite and almost indescribable. Far different from the bland tomatoes you buy at the grocery store. You bite into one of those, and…nothing. You just can’t beat the taste of homegrown tomatoes…
Do you ever get the hankering for ham, but don’t really want to cook one? I live alone and the idea of cooking a ham doesn’t really appeal to me. So I’ve started going to my grocery store deli and asking for three 1/4 inch slices of my favorite Virginia smoked ham. For less than…
We all need a soft place to land. A nice cozy bed when darkness falls. Support when things get tough. When I was a child growing up in my great-grandmother’s house, my wish was to have a room of my own. My very own soft place to land. But our house was small. So I…
My love of growing herbs began back in the early nineties. I was part of a women’s group called The Herb Society. Once per month, we’d meet and learn about herbs. Designated members would bring a tasty recipe containing herbs for us to enjoy after the meeting. I recall once we drove out of town…
One of you commented recently that I seem happier here in this apartment than I was in the little blue house. So that got me thinking. And I realized that that is probably true. If I hadn’t had the ankle injury, I might have been fine in that house. But after that, everything was harder. …