Your plants will love the rainwater, too! That is a handsome water barrel (when you said "starting spring with a butt" I thought you'd had a...
Mother Nature has a way of balancing things out. Either the food supply will grow exponentially, or the population will decline. My bet is on the...
A garden that deserves such beautiful and imaginative markers must be a very, very special garden! Love the markers!
I corrected the URL, Carolyn, and thanks for catching that boo-boo! I didn't have the catalog in front of me and--gasp!--my memory failed me....
I just received my Filaree Farms garlic catalog. I ordered on-line from them last year, so this is the first paper catalog I've received. It is so...
We warm Texans are waiting for you to come home, Glendann. :fingerscrossed:
Oh my, I had forgotten about witch hazel! We saw it in the woods when we were in upstate New York, sometimes with snow on the ground and on the...
Compost is the best thing to use to balance the PH and the mineral requirements of your soil. However, the following can be done for a "quick...
Truls should take a bow--he's a star! Hope the weather gets better for you and you lose your #1 status in the cold competition.
I must ask--do the black beans give the brownies the famous result of eating beans?
How frightening! I'm so glad you thought quickly and took care of the emergency.
What a lovely way to recycle flowers and styrofoam! Those pansies do look good--probably glad to be alive. Make friends with the maintenance...
You can either raise or lower the soil level(sounds dumb, doesn't it?) You can make a raised bed with a layer of gravel on the bottom to aid...
Our paperwhites are in bloom, and I have buds on two of the rose bushes. We are keeping an eye on the asparagus--it may spike early this year. I...
Well, Sjoerd, would you want to put something on your hand that had been dragged through a chicken coop? I think I'll retire that glove . . . .
Dan, I use my journal to plan--even paste empty seed packs into it to remind me of varieties that do well and where I got them. It helps also to...
Gracious, the green gods were smiling on you today, Donna! Those are great plants, and all for $3! I bet they look even better after you've cared...
Miracle-Gro feeds plants, not your soil, which is its major drawback. If your soil is healthy and fertile, your plants will be, too. Just boosting...
No, Toni, but her eggs might have had five fingers.
Drop a glove. The mornings have been chilly and I've been wearing a pair of light woolen gloves to feed the ladies and clean the coop. This...
