No broken bones! What a nice head he has.

I love this book. I already own the printed edition but recently was obsessed enough to also purchase the Kindle edition. Ask me why. Ok, I’ll tell you. I love listening to my Kindle read it to me in the truck. (freak) I love hearing about all those plants and Felder’s unique opinion of them. Plus, I get tired of carrying the printed book around with me. (freak) It’s like I’m worried I’ll be at work and hear about a plant I want to check on. I must have it with me.

Now if I can just get this little buddy in a Kindle edition!

By the way

While surfing for gardening type videos this morning, I found this one about The Humanure Cycle. Let me just say, GROSS! I’m not using our poo for my own special compost. That’s just silly.

In the past few weeks, I’ve been in garden ramp up mode. Cleaning up mountains of leaves. Cruising my neighborhood for even more leaves. (I make my own mulch. Just me and the lawn mower and lots of time.) Planting bulbs. Watching as my bulbs get carted off by those damned squirrels. Clearing out the weeds from my vegetable garden raised beds. Building more raised beds.

Last week, I got a large part of the vegetable garden plan complete. (I must have a plan. Must.)
Some of these vegetables are only staying for the cool weather.
My first cool weather harvest was, shall we say, small.

I think the winter we’ve had really beat the crap out of my plants. Never fear! I’ve started some new cool weather plants!

Just look at those little cabbage seedlings. So full of potential. I did leave one lone cabbage plant in the ground to see what happens.

It certainly looks better than the other ones I snatched up already. I’ll give it a few more weeks and see if it makes something worthy of the Kroger isle.

This year, I’m starting a strawberry patch. So far, I’ve added a load of composted horse manure and mixed it all together.

I can’t decide if I should plant the Everbearing or Junebearing. Or if I should buy these starter roots(super cheap)

or the small plants.

I’ll think on that some more.

Ok, so I’m pretty excited about spring coming soon. Bring on the sun rays!

I have migrated HappyKreg Land to a fresh WordPress environment, a giant leap in content management systems compared to my blogger set up. Although there is hardly any sizzle in these pages, there is oh so much potential. In the coming days (or weeks) I will be hard at work on a new look and feel for this beloved Land. In the mean time, you may have opportunity to enjoy experiments along the way. Here’s to the journey!

East of the Wall - Farmer's Almanac