Category Archives: gardening

If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

Monday, March 23, 2009gardening, taxesMrs. Accountability

It's finally starting to ease up a bit for me. I realized yesterday, after working in my garden for three hours, digging an 8 foot long by 2 foot wide and 10 inch deep bed, lining it with chicken wire and filling with composted manure and the dirt I'd dug out of the bed, that finally I've completed my goal to get my garden back in order. It took six months, but I'm proud to say that I did it. … Read the rest

Posting From My Garden

Wednesday, March 18, 2009gardeningMrs. Accountability

My life is so busy, much too busy for my tastes. I'd prefer to water the garden early in the morning, or let an automatic watering system do it for me, but I don't have it set up yet, and alas I work four days a week, so those days I can't water early, unless I want to get up even earlier than 4am. So each afternoon I come out to the garden and take a look around to see… Read the rest

Another Garden Update

Thursday, February 5, 2009gardeningMrs. Accountability

My dear readers, I am so sorry for all the gardening posts for those of you who come here to read about personal finance and see if we're ever going to get Out of Debt Again! I promise I will soon get back to the discussion surrounding personal finance, but to tell the honest truth much of my spare time is being spent gardening! I have 18 baby tomato plants that need to be planted outside in just ten short… Read the rest

What I Found In My Bathroom Last Night

Friday, January 23, 2009gardeningMrs. Accountability

I got my tomato and eggplant seeds planted on Sunday the 18th. Every day I checked the little containers to make sure they remained most, and kept the lights on 24 hours a day. It's been so warm outside and therefore warm in the house – in the 80s. When I got home late in the evening I removed the plastic covering to find nearly all the babies were popping out and reaching for the light. Very exciting! Today I'm… Read the rest