Welcome!
I’m Dee Nash, a native Oklahoman, and I’ve gardened here since my teens. I know from personal experience how challenging our prairie climate can be.
But my blog isn’t just for Oklahomans. Gardening can be challenging in other climates too. So, I share how to garden wherever you grow.
Enjoy the garden you’ve always wanted!
Featured posts
Dear Spring Garden, I love you
Dear Spring Garden, I love you. You are…
Easy plants for your containers
Last year, I wrote my container garden tutorial,…
A quick garden update
So, how is everyone’s garden season so far?…
Spring garden preparations
There’s a lot of advice online about spring…
A Garden’s Growth
My friend, Mary Ann, suggested I write more about the origins of my garden. My first thought was "Oh, no, I want it to be perfect and in bloom, and I don't have any good pictures of it like that." I wonder why. Could it be that gardens like everything else in life are never perfect? I revised my thinking. Ego aside, if I wanted to show structure, winter would be best. My first country garden (in 1990) was a rectangle. It looked like everyone else's garden space, efficiency with no style. Note: a rectangle isn't very efficient anyway. Vegetables grown in straight rows don't produce as much bounty. Then I subscribed to Kitchen Gardener magazine. From the first issue, I felt like I'd finally met "my people." People who grew beans up poles, and tried interesting vegetable varieties like Lemon cucumbers and heirloom tomatoes like 'Cherokee Purple' or 'Arkansas...
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A Feast for the Senses
We had a scrumptious feast a week ago Friday. It's taken me this long to gather my information. Thanks to Kacee for having the dinner at her house and for helping me remember wine details. I'm sharing this with you for two reasons: The meal was entirely gluten free and for me, dairy free; and It was prepared with lots of fantastic fruits and vegetables, many of which were grown locally. Locavores rejoice!! Last March, at the Birth Choice of Oklahoma auction, five couples pooled their resources and purchased a dinner to be prepared by Father Shane Tharp, the pastor of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, located in Prague, Oklahoma. Believe it or not, Prague is pronounced with a long "a." I don't know why. It's just an Oklahoma quirk. I was really looking forward to this meal because we've known Fr. Shane for a long time. He attended the same...
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Nutmeg Breakfast Muffins
The page was mottled and creased from use, but over a year ago, I'd closed the book on one of my favorite recipes after being diagnosed gluten and casein intolerant. This morning, with time on my hands (since we're attending mass tonight with the our trappers) and a rumble in my tummy, I decided to pull out my copy of The Breakfast Book, by Marion Cunningham and try to adapt one of the recipes so I could eat it. When my daughters each ate two, I knew I'd succeeded, so I decided to share it with you. GFCF Nutmeg Muffins 2 cups of gluten free flour mix (I used the one from Gluten-Free Baking Classics) 3/4 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 whole nutmegs, grated* 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon xantham gum 2 eggs 7 tablespoons Earth Balance Baking Sticks, melted 1 cup unsweetened almond milk Preheat oven...
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Roses of Memory
Jim from Buffalo pointed out in my fences and arbors post that I didn't have any pictures of arbors. I then realized I'd only shown a closeup of the gated French arbor. I apologize. I've posted the arbors in winter before, but I've never shown them festooned in roses. I don't know about the picture quality. I had to go back to 2005 to find a spring photograph. This is from my oldest digital camera, an Olympus Camedia with 3.2 megapixels. I remember when 3.2 was a lot. For those who aren't into digital cameras, my baby point and shoot Sony has six megapixels, and my new Nikon has ten. The rose on the arbor in the foreground is 'Zephirine Drouhin', a bourbon, dating from 1868. Like many bourbons, it can be grown as either a large shrub or as a climber. I often see it listed in magazines as...
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