Popular Raised Garden Beds While the initial cost of building or purchasing raised beds (as well as the soil needed to fill them) can be a gut punch, the benefits of growing plants this way are many! I've been vegetable gardening in raised beds for 25 years. My first home had just a few plants ...
Read More | Container CornerA simple box for my son It is a simple box. The box has four sides - four boards - a few screws put in the right place and securely fastened. It is now a frame for a raised bed. It is like the many hundreds of other raised bed frames made throughout the world ...
Read More | Everything RosesIt looks like the garden has come to an end, but it wasn't by Mother Nature’s frosty hand. The deer, which have been absent for all of the summer, decided to pay us a visit and clean out everything that was ripe or even close to being so on a single night. So much for ...
Read More | Pest PatrolThose of you who have read my blog for a while* might remember that my Wonderful Husband loves bamboo…and I don’t! I have been (not so) secretly hoping it would die for a decade. The stuff doesn’t die, but if the temperature gets down to 10 degrees F, the above ground parts will die off, ...
Read More | Perennials ForeverEvery year brings something brand new; this season my goals are to keep the deer from eating everything, hold onto as much moisture as I can, and keep the weeds at a reasonable level. The question is how to make it all happen. At first Grant and I thought about building a fence around the ...
Read More | Pest PatrolIn October, 9 years ago, we moved in to our new house. The house may have been ready, but the “yard” was a mud pit – no grass, no flower beds, nothing but red clay mud. You literally could not get off the sidewalk without sinking up past your ankles in the muck – or ...
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