Creating and maintaining a beautiful garden with healthy, thriving plants requires imagination and lots of careful planning. Whether you’re moving to a new house and thinking about gardening for the first time, or just want a little more knowledge and organization in the garden you’ve already started, you should thoroughly evaluate its landscape on a […]
Do you throw away your plastic containers after using them? Well after reading this post, you’re going to think twice before you throw out another one! Here I have four muffin containers that I’ve been saving from Costco. A couple holes poked here and there, and they’d make perfect little greenhouses…Let’s do it! First, I […]
Growing in raised beds can be helpful if you’re trying to keep your harvests from critters and foragers (aka invaders) that roam through your garden when you’re not around. This morning I spent some time drilling holes in the bottom of two plastic whiskey barrels and two galvanized metal bins to get them ready for […]
Most people aren’t aware that there are trained faculty and staff that offer problem-solving horticultural assistance, free of charge, in or near most of the nation’s approximately 3,000 counties. When I first became interested in sustainable gardening, I took to the internet and dived into as many gardening how-to videos and articles as I could find. Eager and excited to try out the techniques I learned, I cleared an area of my back yard and set out to start growing.
I was so happy when I got a chance to take home a Spider Plant pup from one of these larger Spider Plants that you see here on the right. I’m not the best at indoor gardening, but I’ve been taking a stab at it over the past couple years and it’s starting to “grow” […]
It was quite a score to bring home a batch of decorative hostas to add to my gardens. I had to do the work and dig them up, with help from my Hubby of course, but I didn’t mind because I love transplanting flowers. Transplanting is one of the easiest ways to add floral variety […]