i dropped john deere boy at school today and came home to clean up a bit. i was walking by the front door and spied something shiny behind the curtain near the door.....it was a nice little pile of easter hershey kiss wrappers. i'm guessing he was hiding there eating candy this morning while i was in the shower! i only wish i could have seen him, it would've been hilarious!
i treated myself to a massage today at the chiropractor. i've been having trouble w/my asthma and its been stressing me out. so after waking up with a tense neck and a kink in my back, i decided i'd better do something. it was wonderful! the only bad part is it was 10 in the morning and i felt like it was bedtime all day. very relaxing, almost too relaxing........
easter was good, ate too much and am really tempted to throw away most of this candy. which is weird b/c most of it is chocolate, and i HATE to waste chocolate! i think with all of the holidays so close together, i just am kind of over all of that. no more holidays til mothers day for me! hooray!
now that the weather is warming up, i'm trying to focus on eating a bit healthier. its good to see some decent looking veggies and fruits starting to pop up at the grocery. i'm a big salad person, just give me a big old salad and i'm a happy camper. especially with feta cheese and kalatma olives......mmm...
we are going to try some small container gardens this year, the kiddos are excited about it. the easter bunny gave them some garden gloves and some flower seeds and peat pots. they are growing mini sunflowers and zinnias and snapdragons in my dining room window right now, very exciting! we've tried larger gardens in the past and they end up full of weeds before i can even blink!
plus, with the drought we had last year, i don't want to have to sneak water to my plants.
megan, do you have any suggestions for veggies (or flowers)that grow good in small areas?
it is supposed to be in the mid 70's here tomorrow, woohooo! i'm so happy spring is here. it'll be hotter than anything before we know it, so i'm trying to savor the mild weather.
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you are off to a good start with the zinnias and sunflowers! There are tons of plants (flowers and veggies) that do well in small containers. Tomatos are perfect- you could do the big beef variety right down to a roma tomato or even grape/cherry tomatos. Those are fun because you can pick and eat them right off the plant. you can even do a seed or two for traveling veggies, like cukes, zucchini and squash. Most herbs do great in containers- basil, parsely, thyme, oregano, sage, etc. And probably most any flower as well.zinnias and sunflowers are good b/c they grow quickly from seed. Morning glories also do, but you'd need to give them something to grow on. Poppies, bachelor buttons, alyssum and cosmos also grow quickly. good luck!! how much fun! oh- i've started three trees from avacado pits- that is fun too. It takes a long time for the pit to grow a root (like 2 months in water), but after that the tree/plant grows very quickly. I keep them inside in the sun in the winter and in a few weeks will move them outside. Also, we have a lemon tree growing in a pot here- you could do dwarf lemon, lime and orange (but you should buy the tree and not try to start from seed). HTH
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