Showing posts with label valentines day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentines day. Show all posts

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Valentine's & Veggies?

Happy Valentines Day!
My hubby and I have never been huge Valentine's day people. A card here or a box of candy there. We're much more apt to buy flowers with roots rather than flowers for vases. And I'm great with that! After all, he is just feeding my addiction.
My heart (while always filled with love for my family) has been in the garden planning, plotting, preparing, cursing the snow! Hubby knows how I long to start a veggie garden. So last night we sat together and he helped me bring my graph paper into the computer age. We planned, plotted and prepared. He even cursed the snow with me! Awww! We searched the seed catalogs. And we made some decisions. Yeah! We want to plant: corn, beans, cucumbers, peppers, carrots, potatoes, onions, pumpkins, and some herbs. As you'll notice I haven't put in the variety names...there's a simple reason for that. I CAN'T DECIDE! I don't know what I'm doing. I have no clue how much space I need for all this. I've never veggie gardened in a raised bed. I've learned about square foot gardening, and intensive gardening, and whatever happened to hoe a row? Obviously, I'm overwhelmed. I've grabbed my garden buddy: Time Life's Gardener's Guide: Summer Vegetables. This book is one in a series printed in 1988 and I'm not sure that it's even in print anymore! It doesn't have all the modern gardening trends but it's my most valuable source for starting a veggie garden. Which seeds can start inside/which can't!
So on this Valentine's Day we are celebrating with Veggies! By Day's end we are placing our Veggie order. If you have a fave variety please let me know! I'd really appreciate any and all help. Thanks! Oh and Happy Valentine's Day!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Roses for Valentine's Day


For my 30th Birthday I was given roses by my loving and thoughtful husband. Who doesn't love getting roses? Although, I probably loved the sweet gift more than most women because I got to plant my roses. Unfortunately, there was an early killing frost and my roses were tragically lost. Still, they're the only gift I'm still talking about years later so...
As Valentine's Day inches ever closer I've begun thinking of roses once more. I've been aching to try some Canadian Explorer Series roses especially the Lambert Closse and the J.P. Connell varieties. The reasonably priced roses (around $15) are worth their weight in gold if they're as hardy as they claim. It's much more reasonable then the standard Valentine's Day Rose Special. And I'd rather get rose shrubs over long-stemmed roses in a box. Any day...Even Valentine's Day.