Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

My what's up for today is twofold, what is up on my design wall and the other is what I was up to the past couple of days with my container veggie garden. I know I can get obsess with something when my mind gets started on something new. And that is with this garden on the porch. I know I have a large mess out in the big veggie patch. But I just do not find myself wanting to go out there and work that big space that needs a lot of work right now. But I do want fresh homegrown veggies. So after seeing what Mama did with hers, it just clicked. I've known about growing veggies in containers ever since I started gardening and I've even done a little bit in the past but for some reason the thought of the simplicity of just going out to my back porch, harvesting and taking care of vegetables sound so much more appealing than going out to the big garden daily. Now I have a big garden for crops that need to grow in large quantities for canning and preserving. 

With my green thumb itching like crazy and just couldn't wait to start with the container garden.  So this morning I sterilized the old containers on hand and brought out the new ones just purchased. Sterilized them with bleach water. It's a good idea to do this each time you re-use a pot. Found two more feed tubs in the garden that are used to haul weeds out with, I like these because they are not as deep as most of the black ones out in the garden and plus they're not black. Another green one like the one already on  porch with my hydrangea in it. The orange one I think will do OK.   But I will spray paint the black one that I have been using already. I got this color of paint. It says it supposed to stick to plastic, so we'll see.  Think it looks pretty good after one coat, came close to the color of clay pots. Finding, cleaning and drilling holes took a little bit this morning and by the time I was done

Went to Tulsa today to get my hair done, had it colored and cut. Looking good. Now I'm not a photogenic persons and most of my pictures  turn out poorly but if I do get a descent one, I'll share. Did a few  errands while I was in town by getting some potting soil and a couple new pots.  I what to plant some veggies in containers on my back porch like I saw Mamma at mamas mercantile  do here. That sounds like a good idea especially for the lettuce and things that I would use often in the kitchen. You see my garden is out there. Let's put it this way... it takes me five minutes to get to the garden back, so it would be a lot more convenient to have some veggies on the back porch. Plus it's getting me ready for my old-age when I can't be gardening like I do now and I'll just be container gardening. I forgot to tell you about the snake yesterday. When I went into the hen house to let the girls out, there was no sign of the snake. It must of foun

I have been home now for a little over a week and I can say I finally feel like things are back to normal. Funny how sometimes you need a space of time to get adjusted to your routine after being gone for so long. And one of my bad routines, maybe not bad but I could be utilizing my time better, is I will check my blog in the morning then check my blog list and I'll start reading and then before you know it I'm surfing the web and before you know it I have been on my iPad for over an hour. It's the time of the year that makes it a bad thing. Because if I need to be doing anything outside should be first thing in the morning when it's the coolest. And it's not saying much as far as being the coolest, kids right now it's 80° humidity is 85% and the dewpoint is like 75. It's like living in the tropics.  I did braved the outside long enough to let the chickens out the henhouse and check on anything that needed to be harvest today like some blueberries, cab

It was a good day to just stay inside with the A/C on, seeing how that even this morning it was already so humid, 80%, down right sticky and thick.  After my coffee, I went out to open up the hen house so the girls could go do their thing. Beside letting them out and giving them scratch, I'll check the nesting boxes for eggs. All I could see was the golf balls I have in the nesting boxes. This is to fool the snakes so when they swallow one thinking it's an egg, it will become stuck inside them. An egg will collapse and be digested but not a golf ball so the effect of that is the snake will slither off and die somewhere.  Well that is what I came across this morning, a black snake who had swallow an egg.  Saw me and tried to escape the way it came in the box but as it was leaving in the space it enter in was now too small to pass through now, with that egg in it. And there was no way I was going to grab that thing by the tail to get rid of it. I

I am embracing mine and keeping it close all day. Made the decision today that my day is going to be focus on one thing and that is sewing. After being back home now for a week and hadn't sewn any, that it's about time.  Working on blocks for Farmers Wife and have three completed and two more ready to paper piece. Oh boy my favorite way. After those I still have Month 13 collection which is four blocks.. I'm wanting to hurry through these so I can get back to working on the ISPY quilts and a few other projects. Keep thinking about wanting to start something new but also feel reluctant cause there so many projects needing to be finished. My will power is fading quick thou. OK...... back to the present. was able to stitch done the quarter section yesterday, added another quarter section...well all but the berries. The berries can easily be jarred loose.  Maybe that's what I'll do next along with circles, start on the