A flower arrangement for Mrs. Hardy, and countless other items on the day’s to do list scrambled me just enough to end up driving across town to The Family Plot, without a basket or bucket. Luckily I had some plastic cups in the trunk. A baby cauliflower, a few beets…My dash and back seat were [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Flowers For Open House
Posted in Cutting Garden, The Family Plot, winter garden, tagged Carnival, flowers, Los Cerritos Elementary, strawberries, sweet peas on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All Natural Cleaning Wipes
Posted in Recipe, School Garden, tagged los cerritos carnival, natural cleaning wipes, orange oil, School Garden, tea tree oil on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Los Cerritos Carnival is coming up Saturday May 16th and that means the Garden Booth will be bursting with handmade goodies. The kids are working on clay plant markers, mobiles and garden decor that are going in the kiln Monday. There are jars of Apricot Jam from a family tree, and packs of seeds [...]
Six plants I can’t live without!
Posted in Cutting Garden, Edible-Herbes, Edibles-Flowers, tagged lantana, maidenhair fern, poppies, thyme, wisteria, yarrow on April 21, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I received my daily delivery of Dirt du Jour, with the heading “Six plants you can’t live without!”. Launched by the Sunset blog, Fresh Dirt, the meme question for every blogger today is a good one and thankfully we don’t have to have only six. It’s interesting to think about and even more so, to [...]
Dyeing to Find Out!
Posted in Recipe, School Garden, tagged annatto, grass, mordants, natural fabric dyes, onion skins, plant dyes, red cabbage, science fair on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Okay-we have been having so much fun with science fair! Last night Kiely cut up the fabric swatches, 6 x 6″ linen squares. We then mixed up three separate mordants. Mordant means “to bite” and is the step that keeps colors fast, and can completely change the pigment. You can simmer the fabric in the [...]
Sorrel from seed this weekend!
Posted in Edible-Herbes, Farmers Market, Recipe, School Garden, The Family Plot, tagged epicurious, michael roberts, secret ingredients, seed starting, sorrel, soup on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An absolute favorite of the kids at the school garden, and known in the under 10 set as Sour Leaf. It’s the first thing they ask for when they are turned loose for their weekly moment of zen in the urban farmyard. Sorrel starts well from seed and I will be working up a tray [...]
