Allow me to direct you to a very cool catchment/water barrel set up.

I am planning to add water collection to my garden priority list. I saw this post today and it looks very doable. I need to find some totes to attach this way. Here is a link to the full post.

I need to pick a new fruit tree or two...oh yay.

For Christmas, my sister gave me the best gifts ever. She wrote me a letter. She told me what I mean to her. I don't think I've ever been in tears on Christmas Day before. She is beautiful. Then when I opened the framed picture of my Grandmother, the most beautiful human that ever lived on this planet, I was really sniffling up a storm.
She also gave me money. She knows how passionate I am about gardening and about food. She gave me the money to purchase a plant. Maybe a tree or bush. Something perennial. She wants to help me plant it so that I will think of her every time I see it. If you knew how close we are, this would make perfect sense.
I am thinking of another citrus or semi-tropical fruit. I have emailed my fruit tree supplier to see want they will have available for spring.
On New Years Eve my husband asked me to make him a Moscow Mule. They are so delicious. I squeeze fresh lime into them. I said, 'I don't have any limes.....but I do have lemons that look almost ripe in the greenhouse'. I put on my pink flowered boots, grabbed my ultra cool tiny flashlight and went out and picked a Meyer Lemon. It was delicious, but limes really are better in this drink. So I'm thinking, maybe a lime tree. What do you think?

All is calm...All is bright

What a wonder this time of year is. Family, friends, food, and all things miraculous. Have a wonderful Christmas and a glorious New Year.

Compost bins 1, 2 and 3. Now labelled as I'm totally OCD.

My neighbors and my husband and I all use my compost bins. The inevitable question "which bin?" has always answered with 'first bin on the left'. Over time has been shortened to 'bin 1'. So I went out and bought these lovely brass house numbers and now the guess work is over. It's the same as labelling the herbs. I do that mostly for my husband but on occassion my neighbors ask for herbs too. I love sharing anything I grow, so it gives me great pleasure when they ask.

Getting the grow lights up!!

Baby lettuce's under grow lights

Me...a total vision. Nuff said.

Back in the house with my cold feet.

Greenhouse bed with lettuce. Flattened by water.

Swear to God, the whole back yard glows.
Looks like the mother-ship has landed.