An Experiment in Scotch

If you’re fol­low­ing along at home, it’s time to plant that early spring gar­den here in the Metroplex.

That is the result of a long 11 months of nur­tur­ing one sat­suma orange tree. It bloomed in late Jan­u­ary after drop­ping all its leaves, caus­ing me to think it dead. In March, lit­tle green oranges showed up. We lost a cou­ple over the sum­mer but in the end, we got 18 oranges that have …

And don’t for­get, dear reader, we have a gar­den blog up and run­ning for your after­noon bath­room reading.

K and I have always really liked work­ing in the yard, cre­at­ing flowerbeds and plant­ing stuff.  It’s highly sug­gested that you keep a gar­den jour­nal so that you can remem­ber infor­ma­tion each year to improve your growing.  To that end, we’ve cre­ated our own lit­tle cor­ner of web space in the form of a new …

Not sure if I put these pic­tures up when we cre­ated the gar­den but here”s what our new bed looked like in March com­pared to exactly 2 months later. Still some bare spots but we”re grow­ing some things from seed so it takes some time. I don”t think we”ll do that again as the instant …

This week­end, as evi­denced by the pic­ture above, we put in a new flower bed. Not just any flower bed mind you, we tried the “Small steps to Great­ness” Tony-Robbins approach last year and while inter­est­ing, found it ulti­mately unsat­is­fy­ing in level of dif­fi­culty. So, we went all out this past week­end and the week­end …