When you set a tomato plant in the dirt, gently tamp down the soil around its roots, and water it in, you expect to get a bumper crop of juicy, delicious red fruits. In her classic book on companion planting, Louise Riotte has taught generations of gardeners how to use the natural benefits of plants to protect and support each other.
For a gardener, Carrots Love Tomatoes is so much fun to read. I have read it several times and always learn something new. Continue reading
~ Jacqueline
Welcome to the 36th edition of our weekly homemaking link-up party: ‘Encourage One Another’! Thank-you for sharing your homemaking wisdom, lovely tutorials, and introducing yourselves – I enjoy meeting each one of you and reading your post as I can.
Here are the Picks Of the Week (in no particular order):
Thanks for your votes! They help me decide. For all those I feature here, I will send a link to your post out on Facebook for even more exposure.
Cari at {A Writing Maiden} writes an incredible argument for longing to be with Christ (instead of having $100 billion).
After 41 years of marriage, Gail from {Bible Love Notes} has found that ‘How You Tell Your Husband, “I’m Sorry”‘ is crucial.
Lauren {A Corner Pillar} decided she’d make her own Sweet Strawberry Ice Cream after reading the labels at the store. This is the classic ‘real’ ice cream of our parents and grandparents.
JES writes at {Strangers and Pilgrims On Earth} and does a delightful job creating a Unit Study on Bees. I highly recommend this study for the home-educating family.
And I love Paula’s Chicken-Coop Plans at {Whole Intentions} for those of you who are homesteading!
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How have you grown your roots deeper at home this week? What do you have to share with another Proverbs 31 woman today? This could include topics such as: character-building or homemaking skills, cleaning, cooking, gardening, an alternative medicine tip, devotions, a special photo, or any other topic that would be of encouragement to someone. Link up as many posts as you like.
~ Jacqueline
I want to tell you about something I recently learned. One of the prettiest, easiest, and most productive things to grow in the spring and again in the fall is Pak choi, a kind of Chinese cabbage. Last year was the first time for me to try it, and it was such a success.
~ Jacqueline
“Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is place in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,–she would see that in all God’s world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others hands the sacred and holy trust given to her.”
~J.R. Miller
~ Jacqueline
Easy to grow and lovely to use in vases on the family table, peonies are one of my old-fashioned favorites. There are times it would be lovely to have vases spilling over with these spectacular, care-free beauties when out-of-season. Continue reading
~ Jacqueline
Just a few days ago, I was in the grocery store carrying a 5 pound bag of flour. A little boy wandered past me and patted his mother on her arm.
“Mommy, do ladies have muscles?” She smiled as she looked down at her son. “Ladies do actually have muscles, just not as big and strong as men’s muscles.” Despite his mother’s answer, the little boy confidently concluded, “I’m quite sure that ladies have no muscles at all.” I chuckled as I finished my purchase, but it set me to thinking.
Continue reading over at Raising Homemakers.
~ Jacqueline
Welcome to the 35th edition of our weekly homemaking link-up party: ‘Encourage One Another’! Thank-you for sharing your homemaking wisdom, lovely tutorials, and introducing yourselves – I enjoy meeting each one of you and reading your post as I can.
Here are the Picks Of the Week (in no particular order):
Thanks for your votes! They help me decide. For all those I feature here, I will send a link to your post out on Facebook for even more exposure.
Today I am featuring something I am working on by Marci from the {Thankful Homemaker} …Romancing Our Husbands. This is worth the short time it will take to read. May God give you (and me) POWER to do it, dear sister. Continue reading
~ Jacqueline
New life is so very precious, but when someone opens their heart and home to the adoption of a new life, not borne of their own body, something of exquisite beauty takes place. It is likened to us being chosen by God before time to be His child. We are adopted in to the family of God. We have full rights of son-ship and inheritance under adoption. Continue reading
~ Jacqueline
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~ Jacqueline
This summer I will be growing gladiolas for cut flowers. You might have seen them for sale in bunches in the summertime at the supermarket or at a farmer’s market. They have an almost tropical feel in a tall vase, and you will feel very pampered when you adorn your family table with them. Continue reading
~ Jacqueline
For 38 years, I have been a wife to my husband and a teacher of our children in the home. Now a new season has come, and with the blessing of my husband, I write this blog as an encouragement to myself and others. (Titus 2: 3-5) How important is this role of speaking into the lives of younger women! The habits of the home in one generation become the morals of society in the next. As William Ross Wallace said: “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.”
