You’ve seen it pinned all over Pinterest, especially if you are a gardener. I had it on my own “Brilliant” board for a while — brilliant as in “why didn’t I think of this!” I love ideas that are slightly out of the box — and cheap! This sounded perfect. “It” is a plastic […]
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Planting Your Raised Garden Bed Part 2 – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Continued from here . . . . [P]art of the charm of square foot gardening is being able to better manage the quantity of each food produced in a small space. With three of us on erratic schedules eating from a garden, it’s easy to be overwhelmed with produce that needs to be eaten when […]
Raised Garden Bed Soil — A Few Bags More
Here is how we built our raised garden beds. The next step is to add soil – a step which provides major benefits for using raised beds. The saga continues: To fill the beds we had the choice of having soil delivered on the driveway and wheel barrowing it to the back lot line. Or […]
Spring and euphorbia graminea
Finally in gardening Zone 5B it’s time to plant annuals. And that means spiffing up the front entry way. A good sweeping of the walk and steps. Look for the planting urns in the topsy turvy potting shed. In the fall, things go into the potting shed very orderly– until after the first frost and […]
How to Build A Raised Garden Bed
For ages we had planned to build a raised garden bed. Finally the planets all aligned. Space formerly shady is now sunny. Plans were made. Saws found. Hopes ran high that finally we could have a garden that might produce more than a few random tomatoes. A garden in spite of heavy clay. We were […]
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