A Considered Childhood
- As much as I am able, every day, I will ensure that my child will: * Live the Liturgy * Experience loveliness * Breathe deeply: Fresh air and exercise * Serve others * Listen to, contemplate, and exchange ideas. * Develop expressive skills. * Practice logical reasoning. Math. * Receive focused attention and affection
The Booklists
- Suggestions Toward a Curriculum
• This is the comprehensive booklist found in Real Learning. It includes hundreds of living books arranged by age level and month.
The Great Outdoors Booklist
Garden Inspiration
Links we dig
- 101 Things to Do During the Spring
- Cottage Garden
- Digging In
- Exploratorium Science Of Gardening: See how the plants we tend feed our bodies, our minds, and our senses.
- Grace Garden Journal
- Grace Garden Journal
- Marigolds for Mama
- MaryJanesFarm | Simple Solutions for Everyday Organic
- Mousey Trails
- Our Lady's Garden
- Plant Pest Identification Aid
- Project FeederWatch Home Page
- Stefoodie’s Garden
- The Official Site of Square Foot Gardening and Mel Bartholomew, Originator and Author
- Wild Monthly
- Wortcunning
The Rabbit Trail Basket--Gardens
FULL DISCLOSURE
- If you click through an Amazon link on this blog and subsequently make a purchase, I will receive a small credit from Amazon. I will be very grateful for this credit and will use it purchase still more books and such to share with you. An eternal circle of Amazon life, you might say:-)
Copyright
- All written material and original photographs on this site copyright © 2006-2012 by the author. If you see a good idea here, it's the work of the Holy Spirit. All good things are inspired by God. Ultimately, the Hat Tip belongs to Him, and only to Him. (And if you see a bad idea, it's because we weren't listening closely--please pray for us;-). God wants us to share and to encourage one another, so if you see a good idea here, please feel free to pass it along. And if the Holy Spirit nudges you, send your friends our way, too. We'd love to meet them! Remember, the ideas were shared freely with you; share them freely with others. "Freely you have received, freely give." Matthew 10:8
Blackberry Picking!
Christian discovered blackberry bushes down by the pond. Katie, Nicholas, and Mary Beth went with him to do some picking. They came back with beautiful blackberries and Mary Beth took equally beautiful pictures. Off to make pie!
Strawberry Patch
Christian planted the first of our Lasagna Gardens late yesterday evening. Now we're all on the lookout for strawberries!
25 each of the Sweet Titan and Sweet Bounty varieties. In addition to producing luscious fruit, the plants make wonderful ground covers or borders with the lush green foliage, white blooms, and red fruit.
- 50 strawberry plants
- plant 12" apart
- place in full to part-day sun
- water 1" or more per week
- fertilize during growing season; discontinue use in winter dormancy
- blooms from early summer to first frost
- winter hardy in ground; container-grown plants should be placed in a protected, unheated area if temperatures drop below freezing
- matures to 6"H to 8"H in the first year, with a 1-1/2' spread
- perennial
- USDA hardiness zones 4 through 9
