Gardening, anyone?

I am doing well with broccoli sprouts. Got a spray bottle yesterday so I can water them lightly and more frequently. That doesn't spend more than three or four calories. I think it is about time to start another tray full. I have the brussels sprouts seeds, but don't need to put them in sprouting pots for about two months yet.

I don't know if my eating habits will wait long enough for my sprouts to turn into microgreens, that looks like a good combination. My sprouts are greening up nicely, and probably improving the house air.

Teka, I love those nooks of life

Have really been enjoying my kitchen herb garden this winter.

My cats are plant eaters too, but before cats I loved my bakers rack with a variety of my favorites. Beautiful way to bring nature into our homes. I guess I should live in a treehouse

Wren, I had the same idea Murfy wrote above. Your cats obviously need something green. You could grow almost anything that has the shape of grass, like a grass mixture used for your backyard or wheat and other seeds. I used to sow these seeds in a bowl of soil and put it on the floor when it reached a few inxhes. The cats chewed at it for quite a long time. I used to do it in the winter, when no grass could be had outside due to snow. (We lost our cat last fall, so no grass sowing this winter)

Murfy.

Love your photos. Especially your kitchen garden.

Husband and I are making some wood framed wall planters for growing herbs, Joanna Gaines style. Will post a picture when ready.

Gumdoctor

My orchids are thriving now. The rain we had yesterday perked up all my flowers. I woke up this morning to blooming hibiscus and red ginger. Loved it.

MCBaker, I bought stuff to do broccoli sprouts but haven’t done it yet. I am going to get it going this weekend.

My indoor plants keep me going in winter too.

My last dog ate every leaf off my pothos one time. I called poison control- Well, we usually don’t advise on dogs... She was fine but I worried.

We still have snow on the ground and it’s snowing a little now. March is still winter here. Kiki at least the witch hazel is a sign that spring is not too far away.

Jo you will have to post some pics for us of your ginger and hibiscus. two of my favorites.

Indoor bird's nest fern is slowly but surely unfurling for spring. Hard to be patient but have been taking pics for a few weeks.

It definitely got the memo: SPRING IS COMING

Beautiful!!!! I was going to make a pitiful display of fernophilia today if you didn't post a picture of it.

Bird's nest fern is really beautiful...at least to me...gives me brief moments of smiles and awe for the beauty of nature...

Gumdoctor

Gardening was put on hold - we were in the middle of snowpocolypse in Oregon. Snowed in, no power, no heat for 7 days and so many downed trees. It will take us weeks to clean up the mess. I praise God that our pump was not hit in our pump house. We had to tear down the sides and drop the rest of the tree that went through the shed. The picture is one of the trees laying on the wires. It took the power guys 7 days to clear the road and get to it.

Day 2 of snow.. The snow was wet snow and so heavy it was snapping trees in half.

No source of heat except jumping in our memory foam bed. We got up when the sun came up and went to bed when the sun went down. The generator wasn't beefy enough to run our toyo stove heater. Our chest freezer was outside so it stayed cold - we just used a generator long enough to keep it cold. The generator wasn't beefy enough to run our toyo stove heater. Thank goodness we just bought a 1/4 of grass fed beef. It was in the bottom of the chest freezer. Inside refrigerator, we did lose some food until I got the idea to get some bins with snow in it and made our fridge into an old-style icebox.

Gma- been through no power for a week right around Halloween 2011 from a bad snow storm. We took all the food we had in our chest freezer and other stuff like the milk and put them in coolers with lots of ice. Luckily we have a gas stove so we could cook and make coffee in the mornings while we had no power. My house got down to 50 degrees that entire week. Had put throw blankets over the pets to keep them warm and put warm water in the fish tank and a comforter over it to keep the warmth in to keep my fish alive. We were in bed shortly after the sun went down just to keep warm and were up at our normal time using camping lanterns to have light until the sun came up.