BUSY, BUSY BEES!

I love inviting these Busy Bees into my garden every year!  I have Artichoke plants in my front yard and I leave one or two every year to go to flower.  The purple flowers are amazingly beautiful and the bees LOVE them!

I just posted a *New Video* over on my YouTube Channel HERE!.  Head on over and check it out.  Make sure to watch it FULL SCREEN!

The Busy, Busy Bees

Have a Beautiful Day!

PUTTING THE GARDEN TO BED FOR THE WINTER + WINTER VEGGIES

Sad to say, it's that time of year again......summer is over and it's time to put the garden to bed.

I love this time of year for the fresh crisp fall air & the changing of the leaves.

What I don't like about this time of year is that I no longer will be growing summer vegetables and spending long days in my garden.

But I do look forward to starting my garden indoors!

Yup...Im going to be growing my lettuce, mustard greens, kale, spinach & radishes in my basement.  I'll do a separate blog/video of that  coming soon!

Check out my Fall Garden Progress

 YouTube Video Here

Here is my summer garden that has been overflowing with GOODNESS!

 All cleaned up and ready for Fall

Hope you all have a fantastic Fall!

PAINTED FENCES "THE NEW CLEAN LOOK"

I really "HATED" the color of my backyard fence!  So While "hubs" was away in New York, I decided to spruce things up a bit.  I decided to paint my fence.  I loved the clean fence color over at TOOTSIETIME'S BLOG.  Love her Blog!  So I decide to change mine to something similar.

HERE IS THE BEFORE......

YUCK!...

It just seems so gloomy.

AND NOW HERE IS THE AFTER!! 

 I JUST LOVE IT!!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Looks so much cleaner!

Now on to the next project!!

Have a fabulous day!

2013 ~ LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES ~ UPDATE ON MY FOUNTAIN PLANTER!

I went to my local garden store and couldn't resist picking up a couple perennials for my fountain planter.
Here is what it looks like now!

These are the plants I planted.

Bleeding Heart Pink

Lithodora Grace Ward 

Cheddar Pinks Peppermint Star

 Hosta Brim Cup

And this is
Vinca minor, sometimes called Periwinkle or Creeping Myrtle.
(Thanks Beuna)

Have a fabulous weekend.

HAPPY GARDENING!

Linking up to:
Tootsie Time/Fertilizer Friday
Nifty Thrifty Things
Bland Rosor & Bladloss
Floral Friday Fotos
Flowers From Today
Mona's Picturesque
Tina's PicStory
Sunny Simple Life
Straight Out Of The Camera Sunday
Dear Little Red House
Mockingbird Hill Cottage
A Southern Daydreamer
A Pinch Of Joy
Create-With-Joy
It's Overflowing

2013 ~ LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES - CLEANING FLATS, SHELVING FOR SEEDS, TOOLS SHARPENED, BLUEBIRD HOUSES, STOCKED GREENHOUSE & GARDEN BEDS...WHEEEEW!

Today I'm going to combine a bunch of posts in one so that I can catch up on what's happening now.  

I have been taking lots of pictures,

 but I have been so busy getting ready for the growing season that I haven't had time to post them.   

So here goes....

- Cleaning of Gardening Pots & Flats. 
I washed all my garden flats and pots in my kids bath tub...eeeewwww!  It was a MESS!!  I was too lazy to do it last year--Note to self, after plants have been moved into the garden, clean them OUTSIDE..always!!

- Setting up indoor shelving with light for seedlings. 

- Shelves filled with my new growing seedlings!

- Sharpened all of my gardening tools, shears & everything that needed to be sharp!

- I built two Bluebird houses to see if I could get some birds in my garden to eat the bad bugs.  Houses are up....no birds yet!

-I stocked my greenhouse with a few more flats, vermiculite, peat moss, compost, & yes, I course, my PINK HELLO KITTY radio I acquired from my daughter (she doesn't use it anymore).

- started preparing my square foot garden beds for this years crop.

So far this is what I have been up to for the past couple of weeks!  Busy, busy, busy.

Lots happening,  

I hope to be more organized for this years growing season.

Until later!

Bug Hugs :-)

2013~LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES ~SPINACH!!

I'm starting my 

2013 - "LOOK WHAT'S GROWING SERIES"

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Look what I have left over from last years garden.  

SPINACH!  

(My very first winter garden)

I cut some for a yummy spinach salad yesterday and it was so yummy!  

I can't believe it lasted all winter!

It's so nice to have fresh homegrown salad so early in the season! 

More to come!

Happy Growing!

SPRING IS IN THE AIR (TREES)

Been a long time since my last post.  I'm still alive and loving the spring colors and flowers.  Just wanted to share these beautiful pictures of my tree in the front of my house.  I hope spring is showing it's colors near you!  Enjoy.