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Since the last time I blogged. I’ve been travelling, planning my baby sister’s wedding, moving, and much much more.

In good news: Cooking From Your Patio is now available electronically from Booklocker.com. I’m very excited about this placement and am looking forward to hearing from people who have purchased the book and used it to garden and cook.

This weekend I will be teaching a class on “garden art” at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market in Richmond. I will also be teaching classes or workshops at one of the local cafe’s this summer.

Happy Gardening!

My new book, Cooking From Your Patio – How to Save Money and Improve Your Health with Produce From a Tiny Garden is now available online for download as an ebook!

Use this book to learn how to grow your own vegetables on your porch or patio or try out the original recipes in the back of the book.

If you purchase the book and then visit my website at www.GardeningGirl.com you can send me an email and I will send you eight additional free recipes! Please be sure to include a message letting me know that you were a book purchaser.

I’d love to here feedback on the book as well and will post reviews etc here in my blog.

Happy Gardening!

Yup, I’m traveling this week and most of next week too. So this may be a little random for a few days.

I thought I’d offer a few pointers for keeping your potted plants alive while you are traveling:

For pots that are outside move them out into the yard where they can get rain but still receive shade to keep them from drying out. Make sure they are not in a position where rain coming off the roof will pound them into the dirt.

For plants indoors (or if the long term forecast doesn’t indicate rain) water the plants well and make sure the dished under them are full. Then dampen a piece of newspaper and lay it over the soil but not touching the stem of the plant.

The damp paper will help slow evaporation.

If you are going to be gone for more than a week ask the neighbors to water your pots and your garden.

Happy Gardening and Happy Vacationing!