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Jan H

Seattle, WA
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About Me:

Gardening, photography, flowers and veggies, baking artisan breads, yoga, Qigong.

Favorite area of home improvement:

New universal design bathroom in lower level of home.


Recent Activity


  • The garden is healthy but a bit uneven. Some seeds failed to germinate while there is a mystery veggie(s) front and center getting out of control. 1
  • Seek out and harvest early spring crops like radishes. They are easily replanted. 2
  • Inspect known entities that seem to be in good condition. This lettuce is a keeper.
  • Harvest all edible greens. Clean and store them. Let that mystery veggie get promoted to a "field greens" salad mix.
  • Check the soil. Did you use too much or too little fertilizer the first time around? Any pests or defects?
  • Prepare the beds to be replanted. 2
  • Using a grid plan makes it easy to replace small sections of the garden without disturbing thriving plants.
  • There is no pressure to plant exotics the second time around. See what has been proven to work in your garden and build upon it.
  • We had a tasty crop of baby spinach beside a spot that failed to thrive. This time around, I'm planting double the spinach.
  • As long as your soil is healthy, it doesn't matter what went wrong the first time around. Each replanted square is a chance to start over.
  • Most important:

Have fun! It will grow again.
  • In a hurry? See our previous post on the fastest way to plant a raised bed.
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If at first you don't succeed...

Despite your best intentions, sometimes the first plantings of spring don't turn out quite right. ...»

So you experimented with a new veggie. The seed pack had a really beautiful illustration. It looked so delicious. You imagined plucking its goodness fresh from the garden, straight onto a candlelit dinner plate.

Six weeks later...you can't even remember its name.

Forgive yourself.

Time to put that spring fling behind you and get back to basics.

Jenn

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    YES!
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Small Bathroom Remodel on a budget

HI Ya'll! I was asked to share my bathroom remodel with you! YAY! I hope it will inspire you to take on a project like this of your own. You will have to visit my blog for a total ...»
breakdown from start to finish, but I promise it will be well worth your time! OH and please let me know if you stop by!... or if you have any questions.

http://queenbandme.blogspot.com/2012/01/smal...

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Hopefully I will be back soon to share more of our home remodel!

Thanks!

Andrea

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    Wonderful! Thanks for suggestion.
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Recycling broken Pottery

Waste not want not. Isn't this a cute display for making use of broken pottery

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