Spring Cleaning? NOT! More Like Spring Planting
I've been asked to blog about my personal spring cleaning experiences. Pardon me for laughing out loud but I'm not the sort of person who actually has spring cleaning experiences. I fantasize about calling up one of those cleaning services and ordering the "spring cleaning special" where they whip through your house like a fast moving tornado. Does that count as an experience?
I don't really clean on a schedule, I clean when I have to and that's when my husband complains loudly enough and/or I have guests visiting.
The one thing I do do in Spring though is make my annual pilgrimage to the plant store and buy an abundance of my favorite herbs. I then proceed to fill up my two beloved herb pots.
Basil is a big favorite. Basil always gets the place of honor on the top of the herb pot. Have you seen those herb pots that have the top open and then little pockets around the pot where you plant more herbs? They come in terra cotta and in all sorts of colors if you're lucky.
We also start our tomato plants in Spring. Garden tomatoes are a must at my house. We love Italian food and garden salads and sandwiches (all requiring tomatoes) and somehow the tomatoes you grow in your backyard totally rock compared to even the "vine ripened" tomatoes you buy in the supermarket.
Is there anything else you all do in Spring (besides spring cleaning?) Does anybody else plant herbs each spring?
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Table of Condiments, Give Your Pantry a Healthy Makeover
Technorati Tags: spring, springcleaning, garden, herbs, tomatoes
I don't really clean on a schedule, I clean when I have to and that's when my husband complains loudly enough and/or I have guests visiting.
The one thing I do do in Spring though is make my annual pilgrimage to the plant store and buy an abundance of my favorite herbs. I then proceed to fill up my two beloved herb pots. Basil is a big favorite. Basil always gets the place of honor on the top of the herb pot. Have you seen those herb pots that have the top open and then little pockets around the pot where you plant more herbs? They come in terra cotta and in all sorts of colors if you're lucky.
We also start our tomato plants in Spring. Garden tomatoes are a must at my house. We love Italian food and garden salads and sandwiches (all requiring tomatoes) and somehow the tomatoes you grow in your backyard totally rock compared to even the "vine ripened" tomatoes you buy in the supermarket.
Is there anything else you all do in Spring (besides spring cleaning?) Does anybody else plant herbs each spring?
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Table of Condiments, Give Your Pantry a Healthy Makeover
Technorati Tags: spring, springcleaning, garden, herbs, tomatoes
1 Comments:
I planted my tomatoes in June. We'll see if we have any tomatoes before September. It was too rainy...then I got a new job...before I knew it summer was here. Wish me luck!
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