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This books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook
Monday, December 28, 2015
Reading - free gardening kindle books -12/28/15
This books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook
Daily goals- Monday, December 28, 2015
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| Hubby with his new toy |
I hope you had an amazing. We did we got to see a lot of family and enjoyed our time together. This was our first Christmas in a long time that my has it with him home. I really enjoyed spending the day with him. I have this week off to a start to get the house organize for the new year. It's nice to start a new year fresh so I will be doing a lot of cleaning and organizing this week.
Today's goals
- Workout - I want to do one of my workout videos today.
- Clean - I went to clean the kitchen and start to organize it.
- Cooking - I want dinner I'm thinking tacos
- Tumbling - my daughter has her telling Christmas parade today so I have to make brownies get the apple and apple dip together.
- Running around - today I have several errands to run. I have to go to the grocery store the milk store visit my grandmother to Walmart and to the bank.
Today I would also like to start thinking about Goals for next year. What are you doing today?
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Daily Goals - Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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| Hubby has to love me to be fixing my car at 8pm |
Today is going to be a mellow rain day. We are going to work on Christmas fun stuff. We are going to have so much fun. Yesterday, was such a busy afternoon, I didn't get much done. Oh well I always have today.
Today's Goals
- Work - I have all 3 off my little men again today. It's going to be fun because I have so much fun Christmas plans.
- Kids Knorner- we are going to work on our Christmas gift to the parents. I have a cute idea in mind.
- Cooking - we are going to make sugar cookies today and decorate them.
- Gardening- start to clean pots, I have so many pots that I have to clean. Today, I hope to be able to clean enough pots to be able to plant my seeds on Thursday. Yes it's the same as yesterday, hopeful I can get to it today.
- Christmas - I get to exchange Christmas gift with my little men today. I'm so excited! I hope the love what I got them.
Work - I have all 3 off my little men today. Today we get start Christmas projects. It's going to be so much fun.- I had so much fun with them. We learned so many new Christmas songs and had fun sing them.Car maintenance - I have to run to Midas. - After a little scare, Midas was able to lossing the lugs on the tire so hubby could fix my breaks. Which was really needed.- Gardening - start to clean pots, I have so many pots that I have to clean. Today, I hope to be able to clean enough pots to be able to plant my seeds on Thursday. - I didn't get to this. Little man and I were out almost all napTime between car place, grocery store, and two other store getting stuff for our Christmas gift. We we're very short on time.
- Financial budget -
I need to sit down and plan the budget for the next 3 months. Quarterly budget for our house.-I did this budget is back in order. Now I have a plan. - Workout - I want to do T25 workout today. - I didn't get to this. Little man and I were out almost all napTime between car place, grocery store, and two other store getting stuff for our Christmas gift. We we're very short on time.
How did you do on your goals yesterday? What are you planning today? Let me know.
Monday, December 21, 2015
Reading - Free Kindle Gardening Books - 12/21/15
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These books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook
Daily Goals - Monday, December 21, 2015
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| Date Night was a blast |
Good morning, how was your week? Mine weekend was fun. Hubby and I had a date night on Saturday! He took me to Christmas Village and the to Red Robins for dinner. It was so nice to get out and have fun just the two of us! It was cold this weekend, and we had our first fire in the wood stove this weekend. Did you have fun this week?
Today's goals
- Work - I have all 3 off my little men today. Today we get start Christmas projects. It's going to be so much fun.
- Car maintenance - I have to run to Midas.
- Gardening - start to clean pots, I have so many pots that I have to clean. Today, I hope to be able to clean enough pots to be able to plant my seeds on Thursday.
- Financial budget - I need to sit down and plan the budget for the next 3 months. Quarterly budget for our house.
- Workout - I want to do T25 workout today.
What are your goals for today? Are you getting ready for Christmas?
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Reading - Free Kindle Gardening Books - 12/17/15
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These books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook
Daily Goals- Thursday, December 17, 2015
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| Gloomy outside weather today |
Today is going to be a gloomy, rain day. It will get up to 59°. The radio said we're supposed to get about an inch of rain,if the temperatures were normal we could be getting almost a foot or more of snow today. I don't know what I would rather have at this point snow or rain. What would you rather have? We are going to be hanging out mostly inside today. But I have a lot of fun things planned!
Today Goals
- Work - today I am working a log day. I will have my three little men. We are going to do many fun Jj activities today! I can't wait.
- Reading - I want to read more of my gardening book I'm really enjoying it. It was Free! Make sure you are checking back at night to see the free books. At least 3 days a week I will post gardening books.
- Cooking - make a post telling you guys about my amazing dinner last night. It was soooo good.
- Christmas - find my Christmas cards and start to fill them out. I have so many cards to fill out this year.
Work - we are going to keep learning the letter Jj. - We are having so much fun learning about the letter Jj. You can check out our lesson plan at Kids kronor- letter Jj - lesson plans.Cooking - try a new recipe. It is chicken parm in spaghetti squash. It sounds so good. - Mmmmm it was so good! I will try to post the recipe about it tonight.- Clean - I want to clean our room tonight it is a hot mess. - I didn't get to it. I wasn't feeling to good last night major craps.
- Workout - I want to do the T25 cardio. - I didn't get to it. Dinner took to long to make.
- Work on cleaning and organizing my gardening stuff. - I didn't get to it. I wasn't feeling to good last night major craps.
I didn't get to many of my goal done yesterday. The craps I had last night are still there is morning. So I'm not writing a workout goal. I will get a 5-10 minute workout in with kids as we do Letter Jj actions. (Jumping, jumping jacks, juggling). What are your goals for today? How did you make out yesterday?
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Reading - Free Kindle Gardening books
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This books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook
Kids kronor- letter Jj - Jellybean experiment
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| Conclusion of the experiment |
I love science as a kid. I personally think that we should teach kids to look at things in a cause and effect type away. I believe that everything happens for a reason and if you teach that kid to learn that everything they do have some affect it'll be easier for them in the future. (I use this type of discipline with the kids often like if you through that book I will take it. And then when they throw the book I take it I always ask him what caused you to lose the book. It makes them look deeper into what is going on.) at the preschool age I do not get into huge detail on why the experiment is going the way it went, when I have older kids present we go into more detail. But even with the preschool age we make a hypothesis and then we find our conclusion. Thank you Teach Preschool for the idea, we did change it up a little but it worked great for our Jj letter.
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| ice water, room temperature water, hot water |
What you need to conduct the experiment.....
- Three clear jars so you can see what's going on
- Microwave or a way to make the water hot
- Water
- Ice cubes
- Two jellybean per kid
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| Adding the jellybeans |
- Warm up one of the waters, I put in the microwave for 45 seconds.
- Add water to the other two jars
- Add ice cube in one of the jars
- Each kid two jelly beans
- Make a hypothesis
- Let sit for two hours but check on it every 30 to 45 minutes
Our hypothesis
The jellybeans will change the watercolor , they will get bigger, and softer. All the water will turn the same color.
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| here is what happen to our jellybeans |
11:00 - right away the jellybean in the hot water jar made the water change to a bright red and the Candy shell started to come off.
11:45- The Candy shell came off all the jellybeans. The room temperature jar and ice water jar both turned very light pink.
12:15 - all the jellybeans where white
The hard candy shell seem sick color of the water hot water became a darker color. All the jellybeans turned white. They did not get bigger but they became very slimy. They were very soft compared to a hard jellybean (One that was not in the water). They still tasted the same the same, very yummy.
Have you tried this experiment with your preschooler? What would you do to change it to fit your needs? Use more and different temperature water, different color jellybeans; there so many ways to change his experiment into something fun. Let me know how you changed it for you.
More letter Jj
Gardening - Calendula
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| My driveway gardening box |
Can you believe my calendula are still blooming? I'm getting new flowers and a very thing!! This weather is crazy but the flowers and amazing. I'm going to plant these again next year.
Daily Goals - Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
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| Our Christmas tree is up |
Good morning, I hope you had awesome day yesterday. I had a lot of fun with the little ones. Then I came home and hubby fished the Christmas lights and up up the tree. We decorate together before bed.
Today's Goals
- Work - we are going to keep learning the letter Jj.
- Cooking - try a new recipe. It is chicken parm in spaghetti squash. It sounds so good.
- Clean - I want to clean our room tonight it is a hot mess.
- Workout - I want to do the T25 cardio.
- Work on cleaning and organizing my gardening stuff.
Work- Today I work with my 3 little men. We are learning about the letter Jj this week. - We had so much fun learning the letter Jj. They all we signing it after earning time!Workout- Today I want to do my T25 workout and take a 10 minute walk.- I got about 25 minute walk in, but only 15 minutes of T25.Reading - I finished my book yesterday so today I need to find a new book to read. I'm going to look for a gardening book. - I found a new gardening book for the list of Reading - Free Gardening Kindle Books - 12/15/15. It is called Mini Farming. I'm really enjoying it.Christmas- We are planning on putting up and decorating the Christmas tree tonight. - We got this done before bed. It was fun family time!
I got all my goals done yesterday! How did you make out on your goals? What are your goals for today?
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Kids kronor- letter Jj - toast with Jam
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| Final Project |
I found this on Pinterest and thought it was the cutest project. Thank you for posting your idea Creativity takes flight, I loved it. But like always we changed it up a little bit.
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| Things you need |
- 3 piece of white paper
- 3 piece of colored paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Brown marker or crayon
- Paint and paint brushes
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| Getting ready for project |
- Cut the paper into quarters
- Draw bread on the paper and cut it out
- Cut big oval out of the color paper
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| Kids doing their project |
- Color the bigger bread brown
- Glue it on the oval
- Glue the smaller bread on the brown bread
- Paint on the white part of the bread
While you are doing the project sneak in some education.
- What colors are we using? Math Readiness skill
- What letter does bread, paper, jam start with? Reading Readiness skill
- How many piece of bread is there? Math Readiness skill
- Which piece of bread are bigger? Smaller? Math Readiness skill
Isn't learning so much fun? The best part is the little ones are just having fun with the project and picking the important things too.
More letter Jj
Reading - Free Gardening Kindle Books - 12/15/15
Have you missed, my free gardening book post? I have. I am going to try to post some free gardening books at least 3 days a week.
Mini Farming: Organic Fruits And Vegetables Gardening At Your Backyard Made Easy (Mini Farming, organic gardening, vegetables fruit) Kindle Edition by Patrick Cummings (Author)
Grow Fruit Indoors: 20 Amazing Exotic Fruits That You Can Grow at Your Home (Grow Fruit, indoor plants, indoor garden,) Kindle Edition by Chong Dixon (Author)
Mini Farming: How to Create a Sustainable Organic Garden in Your Backyard You Can Be Proud Of (Square Foot Gardening, Small Space Gardening, Mini Farming For Beginners) Kindle Edition by Better Gardening Guides (Author)
This books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook.
Mini Farming: Organic Fruits And Vegetables Gardening At Your Backyard Made Easy (Mini Farming, organic gardening, vegetables fruit) Kindle Edition by Patrick Cummings (Author)
Grow Fruit Indoors: 20 Amazing Exotic Fruits That You Can Grow at Your Home (Grow Fruit, indoor plants, indoor garden,) Kindle Edition by Chong Dixon (Author)
Mini Farming: How to Create a Sustainable Organic Garden in Your Backyard You Can Be Proud Of (Square Foot Gardening, Small Space Gardening, Mini Farming For Beginners) Kindle Edition by Better Gardening Guides (Author)
This books are free at the time of the post and are subject to change according to Amazon pricing. Please check my Pinterest board Free Gardening Books at Missy Life Of A Working Mom or at Pa Gardeners on Facebook.
Daily Goals - Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
I can't believe it is going to be 58° today. This weather is crazy. It doesn't feel like Christmas time. It feels like spring! What are you up to today? Here are my goals for today....
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| Beautiful morning |
Daily Goals
- Work- Today I work with my 3 little men. We are learning about the letter Jj this week.
- Workout- Today I want to do my T25 workout and take a 10 minute walk.
- Reading - I finished my book yesterday so today I need to find a new book to read. I'm going to look for a gardening book.
- Christmas- We are planning on putting up and decorating the Christmas tree tonight.
I have a busy day planned full of fun activities for the kids and some awesome things for me. What are you doing today?
Monday, December 14, 2015
Kids kronor- letter Jj - making J Jellyfish
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| Finished Project |
This is an easy and fun project. I say this post on Pinterest from Crystal & Co. I decide to put our own spin on it. This project wasn't only art project, it also worked on their reading readiness skills and their math readiness skill.
Here is what you need to do the project for 3 kids....
The big jellyfish
I love this way of teaching. The kids learn from their art project so much. They don't know I'm teaching they think we are having fun doing an art project. Plus they get their parents a cute project.
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| Things needed for the project |
- 1.5 black paper
- 1 orange paper
- Scissors
- Glue
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| Getting the project ready |
Here what teacher does....
The big jellyfish
- Cut out an J out of the black paper. I fold the paper half and cut 2 at a time.
- Cut 3 half ovals out of the orange paper. You want to cut them the size of the top of the J
- Cut out 12 curve legs. I made them 1/2 the size of the J.
- Cut 6 little oval out of orange paper, 2 ovals per kid
- Cut out 24 little legs, 8 per kid
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| Little men doing their projects |
Here is what the kids will do to make the project.....
Big Jellyfish
- Glue the 4 big legs on the top part of the J
- Glue the big oval on top of the J
- Make 2 big glue circle
- Put 4 little legs in each glue spot
- Put a half circle over the legs.
How to make this project educational, while having fun. Ask questions, that's it ask questions about what they are doing.
- What color is the J? Math Readiness Skill
- What color is the jellyfish? Math Readiness Skill
- What letter did you make? Reading Readiness Skill
- What sound does J make? Reading Readiness Skill
- How many jellyfish did you make? Math Readiness Skill
I love this way of teaching. The kids learn from their art project so much. They don't know I'm teaching they think we are having fun doing an art project. Plus they get their parents a cute project.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Kids kronor- letter Jj - lesson plans
This week is letter Jj. It will be the last letter until the new year. I have some fun things that we are going to do with the letter Jj.
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| I love that my library carries these books |
We are going to 1st introduce the letter Jj with My "j" sound Box, by Jane Belk Mancure. We also sing the letter j song from LeapFrog: Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter Set. I think these are fun ways to introduce the letter Jj.
We will also learn new songs this week that start with the letter Jj.
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I also will be using a Utube video to help the kids learn about Jj form Sesame Street.
| I love Pinterest! I find so many fun ideas on there. You can check out my Letter Jj board at Missy Life Of Working Mom. I found a fun science project thanks to Teach Preschool. I found ideas for letter J art projects jellyfish, toast with jam, and jellyfish in a bottle. The kids are going to have so much fun. |
We will also count the date we are on in English and Spanish. We will sing our ABCs. We will have learning book time in the morning. During snack time we will have reading time. We also play a board game everyday too.
What are your little ones working on this week? Let me know I love new ideas!!
Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - inventorying seed
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| Organizing my seeds |
This week I get to start to inventory the seeds I need for my Veggie Garden. I have 3 bins full of seeds. Seeds that I have gotten as gifts from hubby, seeds that I have gotten on sale, or seeds from the years before.
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| My seeds for this year |
There are so many seeds to look though and make sure I have the right type and enough seeds to plan my garden.
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| My seed list |
I am using my Garden Pro Plan app. It tells me what type of seeds to plan, when to plant them and how many to plant. I love that I can print it out. This will help not over or under plant. This will also help me stay organized.
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| My binder |
I also just started a Garden Binder. This is how I'm going to organize my garden this year. I'm going to pull out my seeds and put them in here. This will be a huge help in planting the seeds that need to be planted on the right weeks. I'm so excited to see if this helps.
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| My calendar for the greenhouse |
I also pulled out my calendar to mark what I need to plant by dates. This will be nice to hang in my green house. This will help me stay on track on what has to get planted.
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| Organizing my seeds |
Time to start to organize and inventory my seeds. What are you doing today?
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly goals
Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - planning veggiegarde
Friday, December 11, 2015
Gardening - 19 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Weekly Goals
Can you believe it is the 2nd week into 2016 Gardening year!?! I can't. This week is still a lot of dreaming about my garden for the year. I love that I just get to think about what I want and go for it.
Weekly Goals
- Plan gardens around - I use Garden Plan Pro. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App". I have so many garden areas to plant and so many ideas in my head.
- Seed Inventory- I need to go throw my though my 3 seed boxes and pull out what I need for the house gardens. I will put them in the binder to.
- Inventory seed starting supplies - Check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start planting my seeds.
- Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go.
This week will be more putting my dreams on paper. I'm so excited. What are your goals for this week?
I do know most of you are on different weeks than me because your zones are different. You can always go back and see my weekly wrap ups.
Gardening - Weekly Goals Weekly Wrap ups
Gardening - 20 Weeks Before My Last Frost (Garden 2016) - Weekly GoalsWrap Up
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| Organized group seeds |
I was so excited about this week to restarted my " Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's HandBook" by Ron Kujawski and Jennifer Kujawski. If you don't own this book, BUY it. It is such a huge help. I use it to help me set my weekly garden goals. It is also filled with amazingly awesome information.
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| Planning my Veggie Garden |
Here were the gardening goals for last week.
- Plan garden - I use Garden Plan Pro. I love this app. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App". - I did this goal this week! You can checkout how I did it at Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Planning Veggie Garden. I am so excited to see my plans in my head to be on paper.
- Inventory seed starting supplies - check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start. - I started this goal, but I didn't get far. I have so many pots to wash so I'm not marking this as done and adding it to next week's goals.
- Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go. - I didn't get to this goal.
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I added two more goals to this week.
- Inventory Seeds - I did this in Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Inventroying seeds. - I decide it was important to look though the seeds I have and make sure that they were still good. I also thought it was a good idea to know what seeds I still needed. (They would make awesome stocking stockers for Hubby)
- 2016 Garden Binder - I decide on Wednesday, I would start this goal. I wanted in place that I could put the seeds I need and the plans for the garden. I also like that when I go into the binder and put the seeds I need to plant. I will tell you more about this idea later.
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| Insisde of the binder |
This week is the start of 2016 Gardens. I love this week because I got to dream of my garden and the way I want it to look. This week was the easy week.
You can checkout all my 20 Weeks Before last frost post here
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly Goals
Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Inventroying seeds
Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - planning veggiegarden
You can checkout all my 20 Weeks Before last frost post here
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly Goals
Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Inventroying seeds
Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - planning veggiegarden
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - planning veggiegarden
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| My Veggies Gardening Plan |
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| The seeds I need |
This year I want to plan a lot of veggies. I want to be able to can them and save them though the winter. I want to save more organic non-GMO crops so we are eating healthier. I have set some small goals.
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| The plan so far |
You will see that there are place that I have more then one crop they are Companion crops. Companion crops work together to help keep away the weeds, bad bugs and provide nutrients to each.
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| Print our of my seeds that I need |
Now that I have a plan, it is time to start to look what seeds I have that are good and what seeds I have that are bad.
Other post about 20 weeks before my last frost
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly goals
Other post about 20 weeks before my last frost
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly goals
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly goals
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| My book, hot coco, and the garden plans in my mind |
Time to pull out my trust gardening book and get back to gardening! I love my Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook, by Ron Kujawski and Jennerifer Kujawski. Today is the 1st day of 2016 garden. I have huge dreams for the garden this year. When do you start to plan your garden? What dreams do you have for it?
Weekly Goals
- Plan garden - I use Garden Plan Pro. I love this app. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App".
- Inventory seed starting supplies - check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start.
- Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go.
I know your thinking there isn't many goals this week. Plan a garden alone can take a while. What are you doing this week to get ready for your 2016 garden?