Garden Goals

It's time for goals and resolutions!

I just directed Robert and the kids to formulate 5 goals each for 2011 then email them back to me. Having resolutions, goals, and lists to review intermittently helps keep me focused rather than aimlessly spinning through life!

The focus for my 2011 goals (both gardening and personal) will be on purpose.

I will focus my energy on accomplishments with meaning and mission.

Garden goals from 2010 included sharing my passion for gardening with children, growing more food, joining a Community Supported Agriculture, designing 2 lasagna beds, and preparing for the 2010 Sacred Heart Garden Tour. I look back at these goals satisfied that I completed 3 of them and worked toward the other two.

Here are my garden goals for the New Year 2011:

• Re-work herb bed to include statue or fountain as focal point

• Start fresh cooking herbs from seed: basil, rosemary, chives, garlic, dill, cilantro and lovage


• Draw new sketch of garden plan for 2011 to share with garden clubs & readers. Review progress every other week.
  


• Plant 3 evergreens to hide unpleasant view!


• Continue to involve family in garden activities via Master's Table Soup Kitchen, home garden and farm garden.
  

Share your goals by commenting in the comment section below.
Blessings from the Garden.
Happy New Year!
ML

Cocktails?

I found a compost cocktail list in Urban Farm Magazine today & wanted to share the link.
The pic above was taken in Dallas this fall at a school yard garden.

I know some of you are just getting in to the composting "habit", and this list is a great way to start. It might be a good idea to laminate the list to hang in your compost area.

http://media.animalnetwork.com/channelmedia/urbanfarmonline/compost-materials.pdf

Now is a good time to get started with composting since the garden is sleeping!

Blessings from the Garden.
ML

iPad.

Test.

For the Birds

OK, it's snowing in Augusta and the birds are peering at me as if they are ready for a treat!

I just filled 4 feeders outside the kitchen window, and hung 3 fatty suet cakes in the crab apple tree. Before Christmas, I shared some leftover rose hips from last week's arrangements by tying the hips with Christmas ribbon and placed in the "suet tree".

Your perennials that have gone to seed are another natural food source. Although not very attractive, your swamp sunflowers and coneflowers provide snacks for the energy-burning birds outside. Unfortunately, the yard guys thought they were helping and cut all my "gone to seed" plants back...

Blessings from the Garden.
ML