This is where anyone who comes to this site regularly is saying "You're kidding. Not another vegetable garden post. Doesn't anything else happen in Agoura Hills?" Well of course, silly. There's a lot going on up in this joint, but I'm obsessed with my vegetable garden, so that's … [Read more...]
Vegetable Garden Week 3
Since I planted my little garden on a Thursday, I have been spending more time looking at it on Thursdays than any other day. I'm a creature of habit. Now it is Tuesday, so I'll write what I remember from last week. So yes, I went to get a bag of horse poop. With my kids in the … [Read more...]
Vegetable Garden, Week 2
The herb section at Sperling Nursery I just got off the phone with Nancy, who agreed to let me pick up a bag of horse manure from her farm tomorrow at 3:30. Horse. Manure. To think I could have simply purchased some from one of the kind gentlemen who has come calling in recent … [Read more...]
Just Do It: Vegetable Garden
Okay, Agoura Hills. It's time. I'm going to take this gray, sad, lonely patch of dirt and turn it into a vegetable garden. Pros: growing my own vegetables! I am consuming a ton of vegetables now because I have changed my diet (long story, more on that some other time) and I … [Read more...]
6 Awesome “No Soliciting” Signs For Your Front Door
Next time I move (and I never want to move again, but in this world that is real vs. the imaginary one in my brain I suppose that someday we will move again) I vow to not live within easy walking distance of a main road, even in lovely little Agoura Hills. We live close enough to … [Read more...]