organic gardening

So I have decided that I want to give gardening a whirl. Will it happen this season? I'm not sure but that's the plan. There seem to be a few options and strategies to gardening and I found a few websites that were helpful for me. Burpee is a great place to purchase seeds [burpee.com] and Organic Gardening.com is a great place to learn how to get started and explains all of the important details you need to know [organicgardening.com].

After doing some research I decided that raised beds would be the best because if you want it to be organic your yard can't be fertilized for quit some time and since I have no idea what happened in our yard before we got here, this seems to be the best. Also, raised beds are suppose to yield twice more than a regular bed and they look pretty too!

Here are some images of some pretty raised beds...

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I would just love if my raised beds could anything like these. So what I would love to grow lots of herbs, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, bell peppers, corn, cucumbers, onions, and possibly strawberries and watermelons. There is a large "to do" list when you are first starting out and it can be a bit costly, especially when you are wanting to garden to save a little bit of green!

If you have a green thumb and have some tips I would love to know them. Hopefully I will get this started and let you know of the progress. Also, I have almost finished Melah's quilt so get excited...

Calling some art...

As I said before, I have a commitment issue when it comes to making design decisions for my house and that for sure goes with art on the walls. I have been living in my house since last May and I only have 1 painting hanging in my house. It happens to be a wedding gift from our great friend Bridget, which I love!

I think my struggle is wanting things to go together but not be too matchy matchy, I just need to get over that. Every time I research people always say, "what you love is what goes together" and I just need to jump on that train.

I also try to take my hubs in consideration and that is difficult for me but some things he loves also needs to be hung. For example, Auburn prints of football plays that he LOVES and wants me to hang them and I have to be honest, its really hard. If we had an office space for him I would be all over it but our office space is in the living room, enough said.

So here are some things I love and Happy Weekend!

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