I'm so busy this time
of the year.
Gardening, setting up
irrigation lines
and trying to get
a little sewing done.
I have been looking for
English cucumber seeds forever.
😊 This year I found some 😊
I'm a happy girl!
Do you save seeds
and
trade with friends?
It's a great way to save money.
Here are a few photos
of some little cloth baskets
I made this week.
I saw the idea on Pinterest
and had to try it.
I hope you're all
having a wonderful week.
The weather is lovely here
and I've been outside
working and coming in
exhausted and dirty
each evening.
I'm not complaining!
I've been waiting
for spring all winter🥰
God bless you all
and
keep smiling.
You're blogging sister,
Connie
Hi Connie! You are busy, look at all those plants!
ReplyDeleteYour fabric bags turned out really cute.
Thank you, making those was a lot of fun. I have been busy, I'm on an irrigation system that will save me time and energy in the summer. The last 12 years I've been moving water hoses all over this place and when you have an acre that's a lot of moving hoses. I built a small low fence today around one side of one of the lawns so that I could weave hoses through it and create a way to water that side of the property without lugging 100 ft hose all the time. I'm getting too old for this and I can't afford underground sprinklers.
DeleteI haven't seen those cloth baskets on Pinterest but maybe because I don't do crafts those kind of pics don't show up. Pinterest is definitely THE place to get ideas!!
ReplyDeleteI see all your little plantlets are thriving. I save seeds too but we get so few sunny days and I don't have grow lights so to sow too early is risking very leggy growth. I'm looking forward to warmer, sunny days💗
I hope your days turn warm and sunny real soon 😊
DeleteI love your litle baskets Connie. They would be fun to fill with Easter eggs for children.
ReplyDeleteI haven't made Easter baskets in a very long time. ☺️
DeleteWow, look at all those little plants. I wish I was good at gardening. I miss the days when my dad had his garden. All summer long we had plenty of fresh vegies.
ReplyDeleteI love those fabric baskets. I've made a few but mine aren't nearly as fancy as yours are.
I've been working on getting ready for planting . . . I love having a garden full of fresh produce 😊
DeleteConnie...thanks for the comment on my Journal, I just checked your three blogs out! You are one busy woman. Love your art barn and home. I'm also for English cucumbers, they are so much better. We just planted 6 blueberry bushes, the garlic is coming up and have transplanted many strawberry plants (we should be loaded with them, rhubarb and raspberries this year). My husband will be very busy filling 11 raised beds with veggies. Our San Marzano tomato seeds have been planted and are at a friends greenhouse. I hope the snow and cold temperatures will not hurt our daffodils. We invested in hoses that look like cloth and they are much lighter and flexible.
ReplyDeleteThere's so much work this time of the year. I'm not sure how long the good Lord will allow my health to stay strong enough for growing a garden, but I truly enjoy it.
DeleteI love the little cloth baskets that your made. They are adorable.
ReplyDeleteYou sure have been busy. I no longer have a garden. Nothing grows here in the woods.
I could never have a garden at our old house either because we had too much shade. You have to have a nice space with a lot of sun to grow veggies.
DeleteI LOVE those little baskets! What cute ideas and great ways to use up scrap materials too! And I love all your plants. I can well imagine you will have a wonderful garden full of yummy stuff! That is so amazing. Thank you for sharing all your fun stuff with us! I love it!
ReplyDeletePamela you are so kind, thank you for the sweet comments. Those little baskets are fun to make and like you said a good way to use up scraps.
DeleteHi Connie, My husband has started some tomatoes and peppers from seeds. I saved my Zinna seeds last year. We tried planting plants last year. They didn't do well. I am hoping for the best when we plant the seeds this year.
ReplyDeleteI love the little baskets! Is there a pattern somewhere? I think I'd like to try it.
Blessings from the cottage,
Laura Lane
I'm sure there are patterns out there. I'm one of those people that see something and just figure out how to make it on my own, or maybe I'm just too stingy spend money on a pattern, LOL.
DeleteI start my tomatoes and peppers from seed usually in February or early March. The tomatoes get a good size before I put them in the ground but the peppers are always pretty small they don't start growing until they get the hot Summer Sunshine.
I'm no gardener at all but do have a nice raised garden of rhurbard growing. What are you going to use those pretty little cloth baskets for?
ReplyDeleteI found a jar that fit perfectly inside the larger one, so I thought it could be used for cut flowers. I gave it to my neighbor because she loves red and white and I thought it would go pretty in her kitchen. The smaller one I have in my bedroom full of mints and cough drops by my bed.
DeleteSo good to hear you are enjoying your spring. Nice you found teh seeds you wanted. Looks like the ones you have planted already are doing very well. I love your cloth baskets they are so cute!
ReplyDeleteThank you, those little baskets are fun to make. Sometimes I like to just stop quilting and do something fun. Not the quilting isn't fun but sometimes a smaller project that you can make in a day is very gratifying.
DeleteIt is a busy time of year for us gardeners! Your plants are looking great!
ReplyDeleteThanks, I look forward to Spring all Winter long 😁 Not that I don't enjoy winter but there's something about Spring that just wakes up any vitality that I have in this old body.
DeleteI can't wait to get outside and at least start doing spring yard clean up! It's *still* too cold here in northern IL to do so. Next week looks promising. Your baskets are SO cute!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, the baskets were fun to make. I bought some flowers to put out at Home Depot yesterday. I certainly hope I'm not jumping the gun and they freeze on me.
DeleteWow your starter plants look great! And the English Cucumbers.. what separates them apart from other cucumbers? I think it's because they are "burpless" or am I wrong? I would like to grow some but don't like eating them as I always taste them for 24 hours! It would be fun to have mini ones and make pickles though. Your fabric baskets are just so so sweet! I love them! Could you give me a link or let me know where you found them on Pinterest? or who had the patterns? You have done a beautiful and unique job on them and of course, they are all YOU! So so cute and whimsical! Loved your use of burlap. As they say, busy hands make kind hearts! (or not sure if that's the saying, but I like it anyway!).. and that's YOU to a T!!! Hugs.. Marilyn
ReplyDeleteI'll see if I can find them again, I didn't use a pattern I just cut a circle for the bottom and figured the width to go around the bottom plus added the height I wanted. I did decorate the sides while they were flat and before sewing them to the bottom.
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