Sow Much Gardening, Sow Little Thyme

Here Resides My Green Thumb's  [& occasionally my tough girl muscles]  To Do List... Finish sowing the remainder of the INDOOR GERMINATION seeds Finish raking the front/side yards Compile the debris from raking & apply in thick layer over areas of yard that plan on converting to garden beds/rows [to kill grass/weeds] Move any debris not used for the above task to the ditches, to burn off Weed areas cleared by raking-use organic solutions to kill if needed. Remove ALL Monkey Grass bulbs and roots completely . Check pallets for rot, discard if present Pallet previously underneath the raised bed MUST BE TRASHED. Check neighborhood businesses for stash of new pallets if needed. Seal/weatherproof all pallets to be used in garden. Dump contents of compost bin. Determine where shelving unit currently on porch is best utilized- side porch? Have C mount a hook for the hose on the side of the house per his preference. Set-up supplies for layer cloning the b...

I know, I know...I live in Southern Louisiana...a solid hardiness zone 8. I should have done been sowing my seeds. Did I mention I have narcolepsy?? I feel like I did a pretty good job with timing considering I beat March to the punch. Also, I'm trying to go BIG with my garden this year. I'm talkin' extra produce to the point of necessitating a booth at the local farmer's market. I want to plan big and succeed big. MUCH growth, SUCH production. Therefore, I feel it goes without saying [but I'll say it anyway because blog...] that this requires an enormous amount of foresight and organization. All that would be just fine if I was an expert but I am very far from those credentials and I have NO ONE to model my methods after. It's a good  GREAT thing that I am hopelessly addicted to reading and researching. If I am unsure of something, I have to find a credible source, write it down [because the damn printer is broken as printers are wont to be...], and make sure t...

New year, new way of recording my gardening activities- not to mention new year, new garden! Historically, I've always been interested in gardening. Not so much at my parent's house but my Aunt Pat is possibly one of the most hardcore gardener I've ever known...to this day, in fact. As a youngster, I followed her instruction and helped her during the Illinois summers, planting everything from vegetables to flowers to actual trees and eventually harvesting our homegrown produce in the fall. I've spent countless hours wandering through the acres of prairie that she landscaped into her property on the Illinois-Wisconsin state line.  Years later, I migrated down south to Louisiana and in 2010, I found myself moved out of the college student apartment and into a house with my long time boyfriend. This wasn't just any house, it was a house with a HUGE yard and the remnants of his MawMaw Opal's gardening endeavors. I dabbled in planting some ornamentals and few veg...