Sounds pretty depressing right? Well that’s because it is. My first attempts at raising things from seeds was very very disappointing. My dad was given a little greenhouse-type thing as a gift and one of those seed starter kits. This isn’t the first time my parents have had a greenhouse, we built one when I was a

So of the many fatal flaws in my plan(s), my gardening layout is one of them. As you may recall, I chose short-ish rows and columns so it looked kind of like a table you might see on a computer screen, only less neat and more disorderly. I did this in order to minimize the

Ever have them? A day where you go “It’s just one of those days” because everything seems to be going wrong, or at least that ONE thing you really wanted and/or needed to get done goes wrong? Boy I sure have. In fact yesterday was one such day. When I first moved all my websites

Here’s a brief update: I need to put my Saltwater Fish Keeping blog into a maintenance mode while I rebuild it to see if I can overcome some issues with it. I think it happened when I first moved it to the new host. I didn’t export and import it, I copied the files and

It sure feels that way though. I’ve been blogging, quite actively in fact, just not here. I started a blog about my gardening exploits (or lack thereof) over at I am NOT a gardener. Now I’ve done a lot of research into gardening for money such as gourmet mushrooms, baby corn, antique roses, corn/soy for

It should be no surprise to you, based on the url of this blog, that I don’t know much about the practicle aspects of gardening. However something I do have in my favor is that I don’t pretend to know something I don’t. In other words, I ask for help. Such is the case with

I finished digging up my community garden plot in accordance to my “master plan”.  Man what a royal pain in my great workout that was. Ahem. I decided to let it sit and dry out for a while to help kill off some of the grass and weeds (of course it has done lots of

It’s always a mixed feeling for me to do things like dig up a garden plot. On the one hand it’s necessary, on the other hand by the time I’m done I hurt so much that I can’t help but think of all the other things I needed to do. Ideally the right way to

It sounds wrong, doesn’t it? What do I mean “the wrong right tool”? The old saying is “the right tool for the right job” and after all I needed a shovel and I used a shovel, it’s not like I tried using a rake to do any digging, not that I wasn’t tempted. 😉 I

The first thing I did when I got my community garden plot, was to buy some of the things I needed. As it turns out the only things I didn’t need to buy was the hammer and bottled water. The hammer, in case you wondered, is for driving the wooden garden stakes into a vampire