Little House in the Suburbs

Book Giveaway–The Art of Fermentation

If I had this book last year, I wouldn’t have thrown out (and buried, yes, buried) a gallon of naturally fermented purple cabbage in my backyard. I would’ve just scooped off the horrid slimey mold on top, and enjoyed the brilliant kraut underneath. I need this book if I’m ever going to get rid of [...]

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Tomato Suckers And How NOT To Make A Video

Beginner Gardens

Most mainstream advice on tomato care includes the recommendation to prune out tomato suckers. Suckers are those little leaf growths (little in the beginning, anyway–they can get huge) in the axil of the tomato plant. The axil is the name for the joint where the branch meets the stem. Here’s a pic of a tomato [...]

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Twitter Advice, Please!

I’m so slow getting into the Twitter. I started an account, put up a couple of tweets, kept forgetting to log in, etc. One thing stopping me is that I don’t know what people really like about Twitter and what they consider to be a worthwhile tweet. Any requests? What is it about your favorite [...]

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Favorite Links This Week

Link love and a baby in a big ol’ hat. It’s a good day. Twig Lettered Sign: Beautifully Rooted Shaved Asparagus and Carmelized Onion Pizza: More than Mundane Homemade Organic Eye Makeup Remover: New Nostalgia Why Our Family Leans Toward Classical Ed: Keeper of the Home Chard: Seasonal Recipe Round Up: Gnowfglins An Alternative to [...]

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Twelve Tips For Terrific Tomatoes

Beginner Gardens

I know my friends up north are still getting freezing weather, but it’s tomato time here and it soon will be everywhere. Take heart! Here’s some tomato talk to get you in the mood and ready to tom. Twelve Tips For Terrific Tomatoes 1. The royal treatment. Ever see a period piece where a chambermaid [...]

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Behind the LHITS Book: Photoshop Quiz

Publishers have a look they’re going for. Some stuff is cool in the background. Some stuff isn’t. Apparently, my VANITY taste is not professionally refined. Lemme show you what I would have photoshopped out of our pictures. (The above picture is just an adorable shot of my daughter in a floppy hat. Never photoshop perfection.) [...]

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Behind the Scenes of LHITS: Deanna’s Photo Shoot

Last June, I had a day long photo shoot for our new book Little House in the Suburbs. Can I tell you how much I hate pictures of myself? But since Daisy doesn’t do pictures, we were the models! So, this is me “tending the garden”. They said, pick cucumbers until we tell you to [...]

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Raised Bed Conversion

DIY

Last year, as part of the preparation for our book, I had to build a raised bed and photograph the process step by step. It was four feet square, made from 8-foot lengths of 2×8′s, cut in half, very simple and basic. After I built it and filled it with a soil mix, I took [...]

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Ginseng 2012

Garden

In March of last year, I wrote a post about the first growth of ginseng from that winter’s planting of ginseng rootlets and seeds. It was my first attempt to grow ginseng, and I was thrilled that the rootlets had come to life. It was a hot, dry summer, and the rootlets made a [...]

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Goodreads Giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway Little House in the Suburbs by Deanna Caswell Giveaway ends May 05, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win

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