Express Yourself in Gardening

I have no luck for growing plants but my husband is very good at it. He's been doing it since he was a kid. He's been telling me a story how he put his heart and all the hard work making a vegetable garden. He just loves gardening. In fact, just last year, he made a vegetable garden. We had all beautiful flowers and vegetables growing together. It was his masterpiece!

He will be celebrating his birthday on March 25, just after springtime opens. This will be a good start. Together with our couple of friends, my plan is, we will apply for the Project Orange Thumb grant. We want to be part of it. Fiskars Project Orange Thumb is a community gardening grant program. The project is open to any group of individuals concerned with greening, sustainable agriculture, horticulture education or neighborhood beautification. This will be a good chance to enhance and stimulate our own skills in gardening. We can also build and meet good friendship with our gardeners.

The good news is, Fiskars Project Orange Thumb grant is a great resource to provide the gardening tools to begin a garden or enhance a garden that already existed. How cool can that be? I am sure that the tools we are going to use are new and some of the best up-to-date tools available. What's your plan this coming springtime? Join us to make the world green and beautiful by signing and applying HERE. The application deadline will be on February 17, 2009. Who knows, you might be one of the lucky grant recipients of up to $1,000 in green goods and $1,500 in Fiskars gardening tools.

It's A Jungle Out There!

It is so depressing when you get home and everything is a mess. We contacted someone to mow our place but they never did a good job. As we got home last night, we never paid attention on what the house looked like until we woke up this morning and found the house like a place in a jungle. The grasses are pretty tall, it seems like it never rained for the past weeks as they are also dry and about to die. The vegetable garden that my husband - Winn started last spring already died. Luckily, the trees we planted were fine and great.

I helped Winn mowed the front and back yard. It was a hard work for both of us. You can't just trust anyone to get someone and mow the place. It is also hard to leave our place here in Kentucky as no one will ever take care of the vegetable garden. It was so depressing to see that our place was not that far to compare to a jungle. We also harvested some Irish potatoes and green beans. The corns are all brown, dry and dead. We also gathered some chillies, colorful bell peppers and some ripe tomatoes. The sunflowers are all dead and brown. Maybe for a short time, the birds enjoyed them. I just wished that our house here will be sold soon. Keeping my fingers crossed.