spiceoflife's Blog

Finding One

Tue, 05 May 2009 02:43:00 GMT

We live our lives and hope we find
At least one person good and kind
With which to share our time on Earth
As we progress through life from birth.

Some will start with Mom an...

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Ally my poems in one place....

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:54:00 GMT

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My first attempt here - subject was olives.

Olives green and olives black,
I won't give the olives back.

They...

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I got Jack!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:24:00 GMT

Jackfruit sprout, that is.

That's right, only two weeks after putting them into peat moss and placing them on the top of the refrigerator, one has sprouted! If theyhave 80 pound fruit fill...

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New Pre-Bonsai's

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:44:00 GMT

It's been a good week!

I went to both of the bonsai nurseries that I know of that are sort of near me and scored a few gems! Being fairly new to the subject of bonsais, and being fairly frug...

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Once more for the cheap seats - Patience!

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:02:00 GMT

Cool - One of my avocado seeds has sprouted, and with three stems! I've never seen this in any of the reports of sprouting avocado pits, but it's pretty cool. Maybe I'll have an avocado bush inst...

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I don't know Jack! Jackfruit, that is!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:50:00 GMT

Score!

I went to Russo's again yesterday originally to replace my sapotilla/Mamey that the the rodents ate last week, but decided I would look around first and see what Russo's had newl...

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What was that word again? Oh, yeah: patience!

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:43:00 GMT

Warning - this entry has a fair amount of complaining. It's not my usual type of entry, but there it is.

This has not been my week.

Firstly, I went outside to check all my outside...

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Haven't I learned the first thing about gardening?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:46:00 GMT

Well, maybe not the first thing.....

The first thing is probably what you need to put together to make a plant grow. You can learn this much as a child - seed, dirt, water, sunshine.

B...

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Have you ever done this?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:04:00 GMT

I have this side yard that last year I let get taken over by volunteer tomato plants. This year I decided that since I wasn't paying much attention to it anyway, I might as well just grow wildflow...

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quick update

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:04:00 GMT

Mangoes 2 out of three dead so far out of the last batch, and the third isn't looking too good.

Pineapple top is dead - the roots never grew.

Opuntia (prickly pear) leaves are doing not...

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And again....

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:11:00 GMT

Hi all,

About a month ago I went to Trader Joe's (a sort of eclectic store with a diverse range of offerings, some specialty items, some staples, pretty good prices) and one of the items I pi...

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Here I go again...

Fri, 30 May 2008 01:59:00 GMT

So now that I have my new book, Don't Throw It, Grow It! 68 Windowsill Plants From Kitchen Scraps by Deborah Peterson and Millicent Selsam, I'm trying a few new ones and a ...

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If it didn't exist, I'd've had to write it myself!

Sun, 18 May 2008 06:44:00 GMT

I visited my uncle today to hook him up to the internet at his new place. He lives about 45 minutes west of me. On my way home I decided to take a small detour to Littleton, MA to try to make i...

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An Ode To Compost

Fri, 16 May 2008 04:16:00 GMT

I actually felt inspired turning my compost pile yesterday. It felt good to be doing some honest hard work in the yard again. I was going to post this in the Cheezy Poetry forum, but the subject ...

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Crisis averted, and a lettuce update!

Thu, 01 May 2008 19:31:00 GMT

Okay, so having a slighty smelly compost pile is hardly a crisis, but I managed to avert it none the less. I've turned it a couple of times since I originally built it and it was positively steami...

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