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Hi greeneyes and everyone!

The Baker Creek catalog arrived. Oh goodie! I’m learning to indulge in the gardener’s disease, or should I say, guilty pleasure (?), of dreaming of the next garden!

The parsley I left outside snuggied up against the south wall of the house in the herb garden so far has not totally succumbed to the recent snow and freezing weather we had. The indoor pot seems ok, but I’m noticing that there are little insect fauna inhabiting the potted plant area. Can anyone tell me if diatomaceous earth could help that out? Some of them are spider like, and some are fruit fly kinds of critters.

The last 2 okra pods have finally dried out and I plan to reap the seeds from them in next couple of days.

Santa came early and I’ll be having a new green garden wagon under the tree!!!! It’s even fitted with a dumper!(SHHHHHHHH don’t tell Darlin I know!!!)

We bought a few new strand of Christmas lights to add to our tiny display. Hope I have the energy to put them up this year! Haven’t sent out cards yet.

A number of years ago I had a job that required that I work a lot during the Christmas Season, and I decided at that time that it didn’t matter if everything got done by Dec 25. It COULDN’T!! so I developed the philosophy that I would celebrate Christmas until the Wisemen get there! That is much easier on the stress levels! LOL!

[greeneyes]

I have used those yellow pot stickers that you see in some of the seed catalogs, but mostly, I just stick to the homemade pepper spray.

We used to start our decorating the day after Thanksgiving, since the kids were usually home from school. Now we sometimes just wait till Christmas Eve, when the kids come over for hot chocolate and cookies.

I always plan on whatever goes up to stay up until after New Years. Since my oldest daughter will be moving from a nearby town, to out of state, all our traditions may have to change after this year.

I love to look at the Baker’s Creek Catalog so many wonderful pictures. So hard to choose. LOL

[mom3boys]

I love the Baker Creek catalog! I received mine too but I put in an order before I got the catalog - gotta start those tomato seeds indoors very soon!
My order arrived today - tomatoes: Black Krim, Black Cherry, Roma, a yellow cherry variety; a white eggplant; lemon cuke and I'm going to try growing some ground cherries.
I'm still in the process of weeding out which heirloom tomatoes grow best in our climate and which ones the family likes so I'm growing different varieties.

After about a week of freezing and near freezing weather, we are up to the 40s at night again. It's supposed to be in the 70s during the daytime in a couple of weeks!
I harvested some of the lettuce in my lettuce bowl today for lunch. Here it is last week before its "haircut"