You Act Like My Eating Disorder Fits Me Better Than My Recovery. Stop!
I am a recovering bulimic. When I was acutely bulimic, and in the worst of it, I worried a lot about being too big, or about eating or not eating, about exercising and losing weight. Now that I’m...
View ArticleEating Disorders Aren’t a Joke
There’s a sense out there that everybody knows everything about eating disorders. The jokes are everywhere. The post Eating Disorders Aren’t a Joke appeared first on Empathize This.
View ArticlePlant Greens in the spring!
April is a great time to plant greens like spinach, lettuce, cabbage and mustard greens. Plant now so you will get some greens to eat before it gets too hot. When it is hot they will bolt and become...
View ArticleTomato seeds starting to come up April 9th
The tomato seeds are starting to germinate in their trays. It has taken only 5 days! Still more to germinate but many are already up. A few haven’t germinated so I will replant if they don’t come up...
View ArticleFREEZE ALERT!!
Starting tonight, the next 4 nights will be below freezing with the temperatures dipping down to 30°F tonight and 27-28°F for the following three nights so if you have anything outside or in an...
View ArticleTomato plants transplanted into pots
This past Friday, April 19, all the baby tomato seedlings were transplanted from the germination trays into 2.25 pots where they will stay until we plant them outside. There are 155 total tomato...
View ArticleSnow/freezing temperatures on May 20th, 2019
Here it is May 21st and I’m now glad I waited to put my tomatoes in. I have wanted to get them in the ground since early May, but it was not to be. Last year was much warmer and I got my tomatoes in by...
View ArticleTomatoes planted on May 24-latest ever for me
Well now it is June 6 but want to catch up with what’s going on in the garden. All 31 of my tomato plants were planted in Wall of Waters on Friday, May 24. I had a wonderful crew-Bob, Tom and Janine...
View ArticleGrowing cool season lettuce
A friend of mine said the other night that she stopped trying to grow lettuce because it always gets too bitter. But growing lettuces in the spring can be easy-you just have to start earlier than you...
View ArticleWhat can gardeners do while we deal with Coronavirus?
So while most of us are holed up in our houses, I imagine we will get pretty bored. There are only so many Netflix videos I can watch. I’m a bit shell shocked and finding trouble getting motivated...
View ArticleCoronavirus and gardening
Well it seems that the Coronavirus is making gardeners out of a lot of people who have never tried vegetable gardening before. Many people are interested in trying to grow food now. That makes me...
View ArticlePlants suffer in 21°F weather/changes for the better by Friday April 17
Well, almost all my tulips bite the dust with the cold weather but these pictured above lifted up their heads and survived. At least I got about two weeks of glorious color to brighten my days before...
View ArticleTomatoes are in-May 3rd-woo hoo!
Today we put 31 tomatoes in the garden. Enjoy the time lapse! This is the earliest I have ever been able to put them outside. We always put them in Wall-of-Waters (green cylinders) to protect them from...
View ArticleMARCH MADNESS!
Where as March is known as March Madness for basketball followers here in the US, I think of March as a time to get busy in the garden-definitely March madness! Here is a list of things to do in the...
View ArticleApril roars in-cold ‘n windy
The time between spring and summer where one day it’s gorgeous and the next day/night too cold is called the shoulder season-one day winter and the next day summer. This April has been miserable so far...
View ArticleWhat a surprise! Snow!!
I was pleasantly surprised this morning when I woke up to 4-5 inches of snow. What a relief for the perennial and fruit trees since we haven’t gotten a lot of snow this past winter. I call this time of...
View ArticleGreens update
I grew too many greens this year. I planted more seeds than I needed because I thought the seeds might be too old so I planted more in case the germination rate was low. Guess what? They all...
View ArticleYou Act Like My Eating Disorder Fits Me Better Than My Recovery. Stop!
I am a recovering bulimic. When I was acutely bulimic, and in the worst of it, I worried a lot about being too big, or about eating or not eating, about exercising and losing weight. Now that I’m...
View ArticleEating Disorders Aren’t a Joke
There’s a sense out there that everybody knows everything about eating disorders. The jokes are everywhere. The post Eating Disorders Aren’t a Joke appeared first on Empathize This.
View ArticlePlant Greens in the spring!
April is a great time to plant greens like spinach, lettuce, cabbage and mustard greens. Plant now so you will get some greens to eat before it gets too hot. When it is hot they will bolt and become...
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