Tanya's Blooms, Seeds, and all things flowers

03/14/2025

Yikes...

Lunchroom Ladies Brownies-50 year old recipe!
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1/2 cup cocoa
2 cup flour
2 cup sugar
4 eggs
4 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped nuts
Directions :
Mix ingredients then pour in 9 x 13 pan
Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees
Check at 20 mins
Icing:
1/4 cup softened butter
¼ cup can milk (regular milk is fine)
1/4 cup cocoa
3 cups powdered sugar
dash salt
Mix together & frost Brownies.

03/14/2025

Angelica VanHorn who is always hungry at work? 😆

03/14/2025

Everyone who has rented this electric tiller has been very happy with its power.

03/14/2025

It's tiller time. Everyone who has rented this has been very happy with the power it has.

03/14/2025

I planted some stuff today.

Pink/Purple Columbine seeds from a seed trade. I am excited to have this color of Columbine to add to my Purple Clementine and Reds.

Pink Sweet peas and regular 🫛

03/14/2025

Available at my plant sale

3/4 to 1 cup of Tall/African Crackerjack Marigold seeds from CUT flowers. I have 4 or 5 varieties, but the seeds are mixed.
$3.00

The photo is germination at 5 days.

03/14/2025

Available at my plant sale

3/4 to 1 cup of Tall/African Crackerjack Marigold seeds from CUT flowers. I have 4 or 5 varieties but the seeds are mixed.
$3.00

Photo is germination at 5 days.

03/14/2025

Just crazy

03/14/2025

03/13/2025

I just can't let go of my Ford stock. I am wondering how I could to wrong with a CHEAPER EV stock???

03/13/2025

Zinnia seed loot
Divided up
*seeds from CUT flowers
*seeds dried on plant
*candy/peppermint stripe dried on plant
*bernary giant purple 💜?
*separated by colors, yellow and orange

I save and plant the whole head. Nothing gets thrown away and I don't separate seeds from "chaff".

03/13/2025

I might have to get the electric scooter out tomorrow to ride to work🤔

03/12/2025

As tempting as it is to plant early

If you direct sow zinnia and marigold seeds outdoors in Iowa, I wouldn't plant them any earlier than the first to middle part of May. They like warm temperatures for germination.

Planting too soon and you may be wasting seeds. This has been my experience anyway and the question came up today on a gardening show.

03/12/2025

I bet you don't know too many people that have a camera pointed on their roof? Mine has been under surveillance for a year now. Hopefully next fall, i will have comfort in removing that camera!!

03/12/2025

I enjoy listening to my elementary students talk

Today, "grandpa sold his Tesla two days ago ". When I asked why, "it is partially because he didn't need it and well, with everything going on"....

I don't recall what brought on this conversation today but student said to me, " yeah then you wouldn't have had to drive a bus for work!" I then explained to him WHY I drive a bus( :

The talk all week has been, "who do you have a "crush on" at school. Today, one kid was asked and he said, "nobody" I told him that was alright. Kid is probably 7, maybe 6.

What is your favorite song? Would you believe one picked a John Denver song (Country Road).

When I asked them who sang it, they couldn't remember. I then told them about the mad CRUSH I had on John Denver when I was their age and every week when his show was over (Sunday nights I think) I would 😢....

😆 never a dull moment when you listen to the chatter...