Bits of This and That #1 - Home and Garden Inspiration
- themarigoldgc
- Oct 9, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 25, 2024
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! This is my very favourite holiday of all. A time celebrate kinship, sharing good food and fun with family and friends.
The apples above are being made into a lovely crisp, super simple to make and always a great hit in fall. Apple crisp or pear and cranberry crisp are our traditional desserts, with ice cream, of course, but we often get a token pumpkin pie, too. The pie came from a local u-pick farm, made from their very own pumpkins!
We usually make everything from our own bountiful harvest on the homestead but as we have no garden this year, we are contributing the apples and garlic from our garden while my brother and his boys are putting on the rest of the feast... and deep frying the beast! This veggie girl will be living on mashed potatoes and mushy veggies this year as I had a tooth extraction so am on soft foods for another week yet.
I have not got the newsletter made up yet, will get that up and running this week so that the posts come right to your inbox. Thank you all so much for signing up!
This week, I started us out with a welcome to my new blog and yard. See that post here.
Then also a diy project, how to spiffy up that old piece of furniture from the thrift store. Mine was a lovely little table that I just adore. See how that turned out here.
Here are some great articles that I came upon this week, this week's sparks of inspiration, if you will.
Check out these bits of home and garden inspiration from my very first Sunday Bits Post.
This dried flower fall wall hanging! So cute. Love the idea of grasses, daisy like flowers (rudbeckia, Shasta's, or echinacea), with clustered blossoms like verbena bonariensis.
Here is another idea for drying flowers that looks so very pretty.
6 Reasons To Mulch Your Garden This Fall - Dave's Garden (davesgarden.com)- this is a great read!
If you have been following me for some time, you know that I am very big on feeding the pollinators and attracting them to our yards. Here are a few articles about attracting pollinators, feeding them, protecting them. They are crucial to the wee-being of our gardens, without bees and beneficials, we are in big trouble. Hope you enjoy these reads and they give you food for thought for what you can sow now for spring, and plan now to grow in spring.
Drought-Tolerant, Pollinator-Friendly Annuals – Mother Earth News (psst, zinnias feature in this one, my favourite annuals of all.)
Speaking of zinnias, found this seed house with super great colours! This is new to me, I have not yet ordered from them, but I will be! Sadly, they do not ship to Canada.
This really great guide to growing great zinnias! A Guide to Growing Zinnias: Best Varieties & Care Tips - Cottage On Bunker Hill
This cute cottage in Scandinavia, just because I love everything cottage-y and all things Scandi and hygge.
And this one is kind of timely if you want to grow food this winter in a hoophouse or greenhouse.
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