Welcome, everyone to The Portable Homestead, formerly known as Adventures In Gardening! Since I last wrote here, another unintentional hiatus has occurred. Last year this happened after losing my beloved father-in-law. This year, a crisis of a different sort lead me to withdraw once again from my writing, but I’ve spent the last few weeks [...]
As gardeners, we fall in love over and over again. Every time we flip through a catalog, make a trip to the nursery, or take a walk in a new garden. Often, many of these new loves get pushed out of our minds and onto the “maybe one day’ list, but, there are those that [...]
This week’s #GardenWalk Thursday “Featured Tweeter” is Melissa J Bond, @MelissaJBond, who shared a photo from her Winter garden. Tweeting from Dublin, Ohio, Melissa is a “Vegetable gardener, designer, photographer, videographer & general creative soul. Growing vegetables & buying local. Comments are my own. melissajbond.com.” “I saw these beauties outside the door the other [...]
Happy New Year one and all! I hope 2013 is off to a great start in your corner of the garden. Snapdragons in January. You heard (er, read) that right! Above is a photo of our front porch, taken just a couple of days ago and even this morning, they are still blooming. Snapdragons. In [...]
A year ago, on December 30th, 2011, Brenda Haas asked me to write for The#gardenchatBlog and on December 31st, I sat down to post my first Adventures In Gardening column. In fact, it was a Saturday, like today (though thanks to leap year this year, the date/day is a bit off). This was completely ‘uncharted territory’ for [...]
Happy Winter friends! The Solstice has come & gone once again and despite cold temps settling in for the long haul, our daylight hours now begin to lengthen bit by bit as we slowly turn back towards the sun. I tell y’all what, Autumn didn’t leave us here without a fight! A wind-swept rain storm [...]