Envy, envy, envy! But, I'm still looking forward to seeing your photos, and hearing how much you enjoyed the garden show. If I can't go, I'm...
There is good pain, and bad pain. Your pain is from doing something useful and enjoyable. It hurts, but I'd bet you still have a smile on your face!
If your boat don't float, that's a good use for it! Very pretty, and very inventive.
I just spent the perfect Saturday afternoon up-potting tomato seedlings while listening to a new Luciano Pavarotti CD, and sipping a glass of...
Sjoerd, we plant borage all over! I have a patch in the big herb garden, some in spare spots in the vegetable gardens, and more in the flower...
We checked our hives yesterday--both are doing well and we switched to 1-to-1 sugar syrup for feeding. I managed to get some more onions planted,...
Happy Anniversary to you both, and may you have many more!
Rough and tough, and darned smart, too!
Ice cube?
That's pretty accurate, Ronni, and it provides for succession bloom for a longer forage for the bees. Of course, the herbs pictured have to be let...
Chrisle, here in Texas we can tell what month it is by what bug is invading. There is cricket month, ladybug month, grasshopper months and months,...
Mart, we have tarps in the barn left over from when we moved here and had to cover equipment until we got the shed cleared out. Great idea! We...
Yeah, you don't mess with a Texan's caterpillars!
PDM, spray when the first set of true leaves appear. When you repot into larger containers, spray again, just as a prevention. Water when the...
Mart, I had thought to put it in the field, in back of the barn where there is nothing but grass. There is a spot of some nasty weedy stuff there...
Thanks to y'all, I think I'll get one truck-load of the mulch, put it in a separate place, and let it sit over the summer, and maybe even until...
Barb honey, there were two places in our town worth visiting--a barbecue place and our garden (this according to a local newscaster, who brought...
Barb, relax! People who go on garden tours are there to ooh and aaah, not critique. We had about 2000 folks visit our gardens when we lived in...
John, sorry I misidentified the plant. Fortunately there were wiser and smarter folks to ID it correctly!
We don't have gnomes, but we do have these: [img] Gargoyle ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden ) and [img] Our...