Spring Seeds Free with Purchase

Spring planting is well underway here in Central Florida. I had most of my seeds planted by the beginning of March including Holy Basils, Musk Melon, Amaranth, Tomato, Black Eyed Peas, Squash, and Pumpkin. The latest garden adventure was a pineapple planting frenzy. We found some live pineapple tops discarded for compost and decided to plant them at Lions Share Community Garden. Here is part of the row.



The sweet pea spiral is coming along. No flowers yet, but we are watching closely:

For most of the US and Canada you still have plenty of time to get your Spring Garden on. I would love to help you out with that. When you make any purchase from my Aquarian Bath Etsy shop, just request a free seed pack in the comments section at check out. I currently have Musk melon, Thai Basil, Dotted Horsemint, Candlebush, and Luffa seeds in stock.



Since it is Spring planting time if you mention this blog post at check out you may request up to 3 seed packs for free with purchase instead of the usual 1 free seed pack with purchase.

Be sure to check out all my fun new Spring items like this sweet Honey Bunny Castile Soap on a Rope while you are seed shopping.

This blog post is a part of the Unique Women in Business Networking Group's Spring Blog Hop. You can visit the other Spring blog posts by other ladies who participated this month by following these links:

Audrey Fetterhoff http://AudreyGardenLady.blogspot.com
AnnRinkenberger http://harvestmoonbyhand.blogspot.com

Birgitte Hendrickshttp://SewDanish.blogspot.com

JanetBocciardi http://www.honeyfromthebee.com
RitaWetzel http://RitasCreativeNest.com
JennNolda http://brynnsbeautifulbows.blogspot.com
RobinKoehler http://www.nestlingsbyrobin.blogspot.com
LindaReynolds http://bellalindadesigns.net
Wendy Kelly http://blog.vintageday.com
LindaStranger http://capecodjewel.blogspot.com
KarenTerry/McDuffie http://jmjcreations.blogspot.com
JudyWoodley http://wellspringcreations.blogspot.com
TrudyMiller http://mommagoddesstreasures.blogspot.com/
Nancy Pace http://nancyswildwirejewelry.blogspot.com
Lois Stifel http://foxygknits.com
Jenn Brockman http://alexshares.com

You can join the UWIB team on Etsy. Mention my blog post when you join.

Spring Herbs Blog Party!

Spring is such a wonderful time of year for the herbalist and gardener. I am pleased to present an amazing collection of Spring Herbs blog posts this month. Make yourself a cup of herbal tea and settle in a while to read what others are doing with herbs this time of year. What are you doing with herbs? We would love to know, so leave us some comments. For more information on ongoing blog parties visit the Herbwifery Forum.

~Tina Sams of from the Essential Herbal gives us a tour of emerging Spring herbs in Pennsylvania. Her Anise Hyssop photo is featured in this blog post.

~Cindy Jones of Sage Script also shows us what herbs are coming up in Colorado, and discusses plans for herbal planting.

~Sarah Head of Tales of a Kitchen Herbwife in England shares a richly descriptive post on the first medicines of spring.

~Lady Barbara of Lady Barbara's Garden in Oregon takes us on an exuberant Alice in Wonderland stroll finishing up with a treasury of Violet Magic.

~Beth Brynne of the Garden Meanderings blog in Western New York also discusses emerging Spring Plants.

~Karen Creel of Garden Chick suggests planting a Mosquito Repellant Garden for Spring.

~Visit Maggie McMillan's lovely farm. What beautiful animals she has. Maggie shares about making biiter Dandelion coffee and Dock syrup.

~Yael Grauer of Dirt Time is also "Embracing the Bitter" this month. Check out her post on Horseradish.

~Karen Vaughan of Acupuncture Brooklyn discusses the challenges and opportunities of Spring Time Urban Gardening.

~Here at Aquarian Bath, my contribution to the blog party is Shapshots from my Spring day in the Garden at Fair Share yesterday. You will definately want to check out the new and unique "US mint" bed we started yesterday.

Path of Peace: New Garden Bed and Garden Greens

We finally started planting and cutting back dead growth at Fair Share yesterday. Here is the new peace sign lettuce bed that was planted. This bed was started months and months ago with a truck load of Sargassum seaweed collected from the beach. It rotted down nicely and the soil is very dark and rich here.



The lovely winter hardy fennel is looking lush and undisturbed by January freezes.


We had a huge crowd of people at the garden. I guess people are happy to be out and about now that it has warmed up here. Luckily there was a lot of work to do. I may have to start thinking ahead though. A lot of people were asking me what to do next. Besides cutting back the dead plant material I started a lot of seeds in pots or direct sown into the raised beds. Some of the seeds that I started yesterday included Red clover, Rama Tulsi, Krishna Tulsi, Parsley, Lemon Eucalyptus, Tropical Tomato from Echo, watermelon, Agrimony. The kids also planted one of the raised beds with butter nut squash seeds that I had saved.


Arugala or Salad? Salad or Arugala? Or is it both? This was the big question about this flowering plant in the herb spiral. Well I think the answer is both. It grew up in the spiral underneath where the planted Arugala had gone to seed last year. And yes, this was quite near the 'Mesclun salad mix' bed that one of our volunteers planted, but Arugala is also a part of Mesclun salad, so I think the answer is both. I still think the Arugala is from volunteer seedlings from the mother Arugala plant, not just misplaced seeds from the salad bed.

Think Spring! Spring Sale with Unique Women in Business

UNIQUE WOMEN IN BUSINESS THINK SPRING SALE MARCH 5TH - 8TH

All floral items from Aquarian Bath are on sale 20% off on Etsy: Floral soaps, floral perfumes, lavender neck pillows and more. Natural scents of Jasmine sambac, Ylang Ylang, Lavender, Rose Geranium, Vanilla. To receive your discount place your etsy order as usual and I will send a revised paypal invoice. Alternatively place your order and paypal as usual; I will refund 20% off your floral products.

Search 'UWIBSPRING' on Etsy for more sale items from other Unique Women in Business and visit our blog. I've included some of my favorites here which will be on sale or have discounted shipping from other UWIB members, the first of which is the Bleeding Hearts print from Lindentreephotograph.

Love Birds Necklace by Garden Vibe.


Green romantic shrug by Ayca


Spring Flowers Necklace by CobwebCorner.


Happiness by RobinMariaPedrero


Sea Grapes bracelet by AudreyGardenLady