Teal Transferware & a Treat

                                                                     

                                                                     Hello everyone,

                                                        On this crisp sunny winter day,
                                                        I have a treat for you.
                                                        Before Christmas a kind friend
                                                        gave us this lovely light fruitcake..

It is almost too pretty to

      eat......although my husband

dug into it quickly!

                                                                 I am using my teal
                                                                 green transferware
                                                                 for tea today.

                                                             I am a little late posting
                                                             these as they look rather
                                                             Christmasy but better late
                                                             than never......don't you
                                                             think.              

                                       We are expecting a storm tomorrow so
                                                 it might be a good day to snuggle in.

                                                Thank you, Arlene for this sweet treat.....
                                                we really enjoyed it!

                                                              Hope you have a sweet day!

                                                                             Carolyn

Winter White Sunroom

                Hello everyone,

                    Hope you had a lovely weekend.

                 We had a lot of rain and wind

               last night wiping out a lot of

                snow including the snowman

                     Lila and I made. I have no doubt

                        there will be plenty of snow soon 

to replace him!

                                                                           

            Lila and Frosty

                I changed the sun room to

                    winter white again and added

                     the paperwhites that I planted

       several weeks ago.

                         A bouquet of roses to

                     enjoy as well with a

       cup of tea.

         Cozy in the sunlight.

 

I added a foot stool to

add to the comfort

while curled up with

a good book.

A winter white furry throw

to keep you snug. 

The great thing about white is

it is so easy to change the look

with a little color.

Soft and romantic.

                                     Well, the sun is shining here now so
                                               I must get out for a lovely winter walk
                                               and then I might even force myself to
                                               do some chores instead up getting cozy
                                               with a book and  tea in the sun room! Ha! Ha!

                                                                  Enjoy your day!

                                                                        Carolyn

Stop Fungus Gnats and Kill Insect Eggs - Seed Starting Mixes (Boil or Freeze or Both)

Stop Fungus Gnats and Kill Insect Eggs 

Seed Starting Mixes (Boil or Freeze or Both)

Every wonder where those Fungus Gnats come from when you use new seed cells and bag starting mixes?  Many mixes are organic and natural and therefore are outside before they are bagged. Insects lay eggs... the eggs hatch with your germinating seeds. Boiling water or 48 hours in the freezer will kill off the insect eggs.

Good Luck with Your Garden,
Gary (The Rusted Garden)

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Tea Time ~ A Year in Review

                                                                       January

                                                                    Hello again,

                                                         I hope your week is going well.

                                                         It is always nice to look back and
                                                         choose some of my favorite tea time
                                                         shots from the past year.

                                                                 February

  March

    April

                                                                         May

 June

   July

     August

        September

 

  October

    November

      December

       Hope you enjoyed a look

back at some of my

favorite Tea Times

over the past year.

Have a great day!

Carolyn

Compost, Organic Fertilizer and Human Made Chemical/Processed Fertilizers

Compost, Organic Fertilizer and Human Made Chemical/Processed Fertilizers

I will be doing quite a few videos on fertilizers with the goal to educate.

The truth is plants don’t care what you give them; compost, organic fertilizers or chemical/processed fertilizers. The NPK and all the rest are elements no matter what form they arrive in to the vegetable plants. Plants could care less. There is no harm to humans via consumption related to fertilizer. End of story. Unless you ...unwisely choose to eat the fertilizer directly.

Soil might be impacted more by over, over, over (did I say over) use of chemical/processed fertilizers. Organic fertilizers need to be broken down by soil life to release their NPK. That is good for soil life. P/C fertilizers are made into a form that is readily available to a plant. They don't need soil life. High use of P/C could harm soil life. That won't happen if you don't abuse them. I recommend using them by ½ of what the packaged instructions say.

If you have it, good old compost will save you money, feed your plants, fix the soil, retain moisture and you won’t need any fertilizers organic or P/C but for emergencies.

You will need to use fertilizer regularly in container gardens. Typically, I make, and people use mixes that have very little soil life in them. The goal is a good growing medium with water retention. Therefore, you often have to add water soluble fertilizers. You can choose what you like.

My goal is to help people have a great garden and a good life experience with their garden. I am not 100% organic. I use compost, organic fertilizer and C/P fertilizers. I will always do that. For insect and disease sprays, I am 90% organic because I will consume the product. That is, to be honest what I think of as organic, the sprays I ingest. I use chemical dust when needed in a very specific and targeted way. My old videos show more use of poisons, sorry about that. I changed over time as I learned.

Good Luck with Your Garden,
Gary (The Rusted Garden)

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Red Transferware Tea

    Hello everyone,

  It is a beautiful sunny winter day

 here. So far, our winter has been

   milder than usual and the days are

getting longer already.

                                                                      Today, I am sharing a
                                                                       sunroom tea using red
                                                                       transferware and tartans
                                                                       again.
                                                       

This little Scottish doll fits right

in...thank you, Patricia!

                                                                A comfy old chair covered with an
                                                                old vintage bedspread is a perfect
                                                                spot to relax and enjoy your tea.
                                                                The tartan throw in the basket
                                                                 came from my husband's Scottish
                                                                 grandfather.
                                                             

                                                                       You can see it was a snowy day
                                                                        outside.

                                                                   The view below was shot
                                                                    through the sun room window.

                                                     
                                                            I will be back in a day or two with
                                                            some of my favorite tea time photos
                                                            from last year and then my favorite
                                                            garden photos.......it is always fun to
                                                            look back over the past year.

                                                                        Hope you have a lovely day!

                                                                                                   Carolyn
                                                           

Fun on a Winter Day

                                                                             

           Hello everyone,

                    It was a beautiful winter day here so after

                       taking down the rest of the Christmas decor

                        (which makes me a little sad) I went outdoors

      to enjoy the beauty in the garden.

So I decided to do a little

photo shoot for you.

A mix of  plaids/tartans

makes a cheerful scene.

                                                                        I love these thrift store
                                                                        finds......perfect for a
                                                                        winter picnic.
                                                                       

Vintage skates

                                                                 Well, that was my winter fun for
                                                                            the day!

                                                                           When, I asked my husband how many
                                                                            people he knew would think it was fun
                                                                            to haul a bunch of stuff outside and
                                                                            take photos of it with cold bare hands
                                                                            then download and edit them to post.
                                                                            ..........his reply " I am not going there!"

                                                                            I take that to mean not a lot! Ha! Ha!

                                                                            Oh! guess I better go out and haul it
                                                                            all back in again!


                                                                                              Hope you enjoy!

                                                                                                           Carolyn