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Wordless Wednesday

Combat veggies

I found this photo on the net and I just loved it!

I love how the artist has made the vegetables look both insect-like and menacing at the same time.






Create lists of plants you’ve grown or garden to do lists on Meosphere

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I just joined an interesting site called Meosphere. The site is a collection of lists, and links that site members have created. Each member can create their own Meosphere.

As the sites about page says we all have our Meosphere. You could even say this blog has it’s own meosphere, a gardening meosphere perhaps.

The best way to explain this site to you is to show you.

I went looking for gardening related items and I found a Meosphere list had had already been started. It’s called “Flowers You’ve grown”. I went through the list and ticked off all the flowers on the list that I’ve grown at some point in my life or that are currently growing in my garden. Then I saved a list of the flowers I’ve grown as my own list. I can’t find an embed list link for my own list though so I’ll just paste the first list here to show you:

Now we all know that even more flowers could be added to that list but that’s the beauty of the meosphere lists. You can place a check mark beside all the flowers on this list that you grow and save your own copy of the list. Then you can add even more flowers to it if you’d like. You can even edit your saved list to add descriptions and photos of each item.

Can you see the possibilities?

I think I may spend a bit of time on Meosphere later today. I might create some gardening to do lists. You know, specific spring, summer, and autumn gardening tasks for Zone 5b gardeners. Others on the site can find my lists and make their own copies adding tasks specific to their own gardening zones. You could also make lists of your gardening books, favorite garden tools, and so on. I love it.

You could make lists of just about anything in this manner and since we’re bloggers it could be yet another way to interact with our readers.

Please do feel free to check off the flowers that you grow on this list and make your own list out of it. I’d love to visit your meospheres to see what you’ve created and see lists of what you’ve been growing.

Elderly neighbor already tending her garden?

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I’ve mentioned my “stalker” neighbor Sofie before haven’t I? She’s the little old lady that lives next door who stares at me from her living room window when I sit working on my desktop computer, or who rushes outside the moment I try to get any work done in the garden. Are you remembering her now?

Don’t get me wrong. She’s a nice enough lady, but she’s very lonely, and clingy and well, uhm this kind of creeps me out sometimes.

In an earlier post I had said that our weathers been warmer this week and that most of the snow that we got a week and a half ago or so is almost gone. Well this seems to have spurred the gardener in little Sophie because I saw her outside earlier poking through the earth in her garden. It’s 0 Celsius outside … too cold to be outside without a coat on!

I wouldn’t doubt that she’ll be out turning her soil daily soon. It’s not like she has anything growing in her garden, or that there’s really any tending that needs to be done on this day in the middle of March. It’s just soil. When she gardens she grows vegetables – tomatoes, peppers, leeks, mint and that’s pretty much it.

It’s not like weeds are likely to start growing this week. We are set for cooler weather again and maybe even some snow. It will be below zero most nights and perhaps a few of the days in the next week.

Looks like I’ll have to try to persuader her to stop puttering outside in the freezing cold.

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