Gardening can be expensive. When you’re on a tight budget, garden projects seem to fall way to the bottom of your list of spending priorities.
I love the outdoors. And I love spending time at home in our yard. We’ve never been able to spend the kind of money I’d like to for landscaping, but over [...]
The aspiring greenhouse May producer who does not have the budget or space for a detached warming, or the place for a lean to avoid despair. A window greenhouse May be just what the doctor ordered. This type of greenhouse is all that that implies, it transforms a window of the house in a factory in the area.
There are a number of requirements for window greenhouse. First, the window must fa
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Maggie loves gardening.
She plants flowers, bushes, designs fountains and places dwarfs.
Her gardens are known in neighbourhood.
Every year Maggie win's Best Gardener prize.
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Help Helen to be the best gardener in town.
Manage the landscaping in a variety of locations including suburban homes, mansions, greenhouses, and parks.
Keep the flowers watered, the trees trimmed, the leaves raked, and don't forget the dog - he loves to dig and destroy your hard work!
Sell flowers to earn money to buy upgraded tools, gardening books, and a variety of other useful items.
Is there a gardener you need to buy a gift for? Christmas is as great a reason as you can get to buy gifts for that special gardener. You don't have to look far to find great gifts for gardeners. Every year there seem to be new gadgets coming out and several on-line websites have wonderful gardening gifts. A couple of them are www.gardenscape.on.ca/ and www.behnkes.com. Both sites have an abu
An organic gardener will use natural mineral and organic fertilizers to build up the soil. Instead of chemicals, you will learn how to use natural fertilizers like composted manure (don’t worry, it’s not stinky!), bone meal, fish meal, gypsum, eggshells, and of course, the best of all (and free!), your own compost.There are a lot of natural and even home-made alternatives to chemical pesticide
The benefits of organic gardening are clear, perhaps so simple and straightforward that gardeners used to complicated explanations must dial down their expectations and adopt an attitude closer to those of previous generations.
The earth matters. What we do in our own backyards matters. The food that we put in our bodies matters. And it matters especially to the smallest residents of the planet,
Still no frost on my part of the globe, although the leaves on the trees are becoming quite colourful, so there is no doubt that autumn is around the corner!
My freezers is quite piling up with the harvest of this year, but luckily there are some lazy tricks to get yourself a bit more storage [...]
It takes two gardeners 8 days to mow a lawn. One is lazy and one is energetic. The energetic one would only take 12 days to mow it on his own. How many days would the lazy gardener take to mow the lawn on his own?
At least I think that is our tendency. We tend to care about the environment as our love and appreciation for it grows with our gardening experience. Anyway... I don't politic hardly ever on this blog- I had someone get very mad at me when they visited from this one to my more opinionated religion and politics oriented blog, TrueGrit. So rather than ruffle everyone's feathers and try to explain my
Chase looking at the water, originally uploaded by ginthefer.
I came across this photo purely by accident and I love it! This young boy sitting on the stone slabs by a natural water garden setting immediately brought to mind the image of a young Zen master peacefully enjoying the moment and basking in the gardens around [...]
Thinking about a new garden design in Phoenix anytime soon? This article will provide you with 5 very important garden design tips that you know by heart. Study them well! The success of your garden depends on how well you’ll be able to incorporate this information. Whether you’re designing a garden [...]
Price:$89.99, The American Gardener YardStick cordless edger and trimmer is a great two-in-one yard tool for the homeowner; this battery-powered trimmer converts to a rolling lawn edger with just a turn of the handle using the Quickedge Transition design. The 24-volt Power-Core double ball-bearing motor with Power-Core deep discharge battery will give you up to [...]
Gayla Trail proves you don’t need a yard to be a gardener. Despite living in downtown Toronto Gayla has helped bring her community together with a community garden plot, and a thriving rooftop garden. Gaylas new book “You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening.”
Now a strong urban gardening advocate, Gayla recommends container [...]
Children's gardening in Emel, July issueShow your children a lesson of garden doesn't need to be expensive. Start to build a life long interest in gardening for your little angel with a colourful tools can be a real treat for them.Kids wheelbarrow £19.99 from www.gardenboutique.co.uk
Hello my friends...I am sending this post out to let you know that Gardener to Farmer has relocated to www.gardenertofarmer.net...if you signed up for a feed with feedburner, you will continue to recieve those feeds...if there is a hiccup, tho,...
Salvata casualmente una ragazza da un’aggressione, Adam crede che la sua vocazione sia quella di diventare un eroe metropolitano. Ne è convinto a tal punto che sarà lui stesso a creare le situazioni nelle quali si trova a fare da ’salvatore’ e ad essere premiato per i suoi sforzi…
Cast: Jon Abrahams, John Arocho, Gregg Bello, [...]
Gardener of Eden – Il giustiziere senza legge (Film al Cinema Medusa)
Scheda, trama, sinossi: Salvata casualmente una ragazza da un'aggressione, Adam crede che la sua vocazione sia quella di diventare un eroe metropolitano. Ne è convinto a tal punto, che sarà lui stesso a creare le situazioni nelle quali si trova a fare da 'salvatore' e ad essere premiato per i suoi sforzi... (35mm.it -
Remember waaaaay back in March when I brought the strawberries into the greenhouse, hoping to have an early treat? As the plants started warming up and growing, some hateful insects started eating the leaves...I didn't know what it was or what to do about it...You all gave me suggestions, and several of you identified the problem as weevils. In fact, strawberries have their own special weevil...c
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Help Helen to be the best gardener in town. Manage the landscaping in a variety of locations including suburban homes, mansions, greenhouses, and parks. Keep the flowers watered, the trees trimmed, the leaves raked, and don't forget the dog - he loves to dig and destroy your hard work! Sell flowers to earn money to buy upgraded tools, gardening books
I just finished watching the Movie, The Pusuit of Happyness- I thought I would post a clip of a interview with Mr. Chris Garderner- a modern day Horatio Alger (From Rags to Riches)
Although I normally apply the excess skin care products from my face onto my hands, as I get older, I notice that I grow to like separate hand creams more and more all the time. Enter Le Couvent Des Minimes Gardener’s Hand Healer ($5.00 for 0.8 oz, $25.00 for 2.6 oz, LeCouventdesMinimes.us) into my quest [...]
If you read my last article, you’ll be clued-up on mowing your lawn to keep it looking pristine. But what about watering? After all, plants need water and your lawn is no exception.
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Cottage ViewThis gardener's cottage -- first constructed as a storage shed and left unattended for many years -- appears as if from a storybook. Designers John A. Buscarello and Maggie Cohen approached the restoration by envisioning distinct areas for relaxing and working. The shingled one-room clapboard structure was treated to a wider front stoop, new window boxes, fresh paint on the trim, and a
Mr. Tono is a very bright plantation master, simple, and wise in deciding a matter. He have three all child people have sat my bench of SMA and one wife people. Because wife Mr. Tono only a housewife become Mr. Tono have to strive to defray all requirement of family which longer progressively increase many, along with growth of epoch. Because progressively leap it price requirement of food materials and other requirement hence Mr. Tono take wise decision, he set mind on to found garden shop in front of its house which close to roadway with have obtained education stock to it studying time in school. First time of storing is true its buyer very silent even there no buyer everyone. But that thing change at once moment there is a Korean incoming turis which try buy in Shop Mr. Tono. Becaus
This pile of rubbish (above) came from the garden (below)A new plant for the garden (above) and the BBQ area (below)A shot of the back yard (side view) The rubbish removed (above) from the front garden (below) Hmmm...A Big Ass Plant!...lol (below) notice the ground is dirt, the area never got sunlight, so grass would never grow there. Unfortunately I never took pre-demolish photo's (before & after) But if you look at the piles of rubbish you can get a pretty good idea of how much work I have done. The newly cleared areas were NEVER accessible & resembled the wilderness. The ground was always damp & covered in moss. There are quite a number of tree's & shrubs that border the property, which is one of the wonderful aspects of the yard. I love my privacy! They are just some
There was a big storm last night, the wind was so strong I went to bed in one tree and woke up in another!It was cold too. I had to borrow a sock off the clothesline.There were leaves and debris scattered all over the lawn, I could hear the gardener guy sighing as he as he saw the mess. Still, it'll give him something to do.To help cheer the gardener up I've decided to give him a hand mulching the garden. When he's dumped a wheelbarrow load of mulch on the flower bed and goes away to get another load I dive in and spread it all around for him. Mostly over the paths, lawn and fishpond. Here he comes now... Well! That's no way to talk to the gardener's little helper! This the gardener who built me a nest box and then mounted it on top of a rotary clothesline, brilliant! After spending one wi
You'd like to start your organic garden this year. You have not picked out a spot. You have no compost heap magically decomposing grass clippings, leaves, sawdust, manure, and food scraps into a uniformly black and crumbly paradise for organic vegetables. Not only do you not have it, it will take two to three months to get it if you start right now.Is an organic garden ruled out? Absolutely not! How do you compensate for all the time you wasted back in early February when you should have been thinking about building that perfect compost pile?It's easy! You replace it with money!No, I don't mean to start shredding dollar bills and mixing the results into your garden soil. If you really want to be an organic gardener this summer, but you have missed the boat as far as early preparation, you
Gardening is fun and rewarding and may be considered a hobby, talent or both and sometimes it’s just luck. Gardening is not as easy as it looks and involves dedication, time and consistency and many trials and errors. There are many aspects to maintaining a healthy garden, but some aspects are more important than others. An individual who likes to garden can have the knowledge to produce the best
The Old is New AgainAlthough based upon very ancient growing practices, Moon Phase gardening is making a comeback. Spurred on by the "green" revolution and a return to organic gardening techniques many growers are rediscovering the benefits of planting, growing and maintaining their gardens by the phases of the moon. To be successful there are three key tools that you will need.1) Gardening GlossaryThe names of plants and the horticultural terms used in gardening can be quite confusing. This glossary covers most of the commonly used agricultural definitions. You will need to know some of these if you want to communicate effectively with fellow gardeners and nurserymen as you plan your garden.As your gardening knowledge grows this glossary can serve as a ready reference for you to gain more
Book Review : The gardener's Idea Book touches every corner in the plant world. Its packed with gardening resources, tips, and valuable info on planting trees, planting roses, fertilizing, tropical plant care, watering, and so much more.
The goal of the book is to introduce the best, most unique, high performing plants, to produce them under the highest quality standards, and to market the
Stuart asked "What was your best plant bargain?" and as a frugal gardener I have had a few. It is hard to just pick one, things being relative :) Last year I picked up some lovely hydrangeas I'd been wanting... for about five dollars each, in large containers. I'm always looking over the specials and end of season offerings. I think the best had to be the year I snagged two Harry Lauder filberts and two hinoki cypress (which are actually false cypress or 'Chamaecyparis'). Those were after the season was over in the fall- often a very good time to get trees and shrubs on sale. Midsummer is also a time for garden bargains, but it can be more difficult to keep the new plants alive in summer's heat and dryness.I've alway had more than my share of "false bargains", where my optimism in buying t
That is how I look at the month of January. Some things have a new year's start in September, such as the school year, some in October, such as the holiday season, but January is the starting block for a gardener; this gardener, anyway.November and December have been ending points for us in the Northern gardens, and while we are in the depth of winter the first stirrings of our gardening desire and instincts begin. We are done with the wreaths and berries, the flower bed cleanup is an old memory, and we begin the dreaming that results in our plans and new seedlings of late winter/early spring flats. This is a time of research in our gardening books, lustful perusings of the garden catalogs, with their seductive, if slightly deceitful, pictures of perfect blooms on the healthiest of plants
I've been tagged twice to participate in one of these memes. The first time was Gina at My Skinny Garden and today I learned that Barbara at Garden Grow has tagged me to reveal 7 things about me. They're both basically the same meme so I'll get them both out of the way in one post. The rules are that I'm suppose to reveal things about myself and link to the people who tagged me and then tag 8 people myself who are suppose to reveal things about themselves.1. I'm bad at remember days and events. One Mother's Day I got a call from my sister asking me what time I was going over to my mom's house for Mother's Day dinner. Seeing as how I didn't know it was Mother's Day I didn't have time to go out and buy a real present so I took a potted ivy I had in my apartment and two wire hangers and made an impromptu topiary. I bent and twisted both of the wire hangers to form the word "MOM" and wrapped the longest ivy stems up and around the home made topiary frame. I even lucked out and
I took advantage of a relatively sunny day today to clean up the garden a little. I was amazed at how the mind wanders and the things that occur to you when you're out in the garden with only your thoughts. I started to remember the photos that didn't get posted to this garden blog, all of the seeds that I never got around to sowing in the garden this year, the plants that didn't get propagated and the experiences I've had over the past two years in (or because of) the garden. Some of the things I was thinking about are universal to all gardeners and gardens but I can't help but think that some of them can only happen in an urban garden or to an urban gardener. You know you're an urban gardener when;1. Instead of weeding you spend most of the time in the garden picking up fliers for chiropractors, Domino's Pizza and workman's comp lawyers.2. Buying cheap seeds at Walgreens requires body armor.3. You can water your entire garden with the Go, Diego Go! water sprinkler you bought
Is there such a thing as maintenance free gardening? No. Is there such a thing as easy gardening? No. Is gardening hard physical labor? Sure is.... so why do it? Why expend all that effort?Because of love. That's right, we are love-slaves to our gardens.It is because of the many things that a garden can satisfy within us that we gladly serve it. A closeness with the earth... there is no place where you can intimately know things about nature more than in a gardened place. It satisfies the curiosity to observe the seasons, the life cycles of insects and birds...sometimes other visiting animals, and the ever changing panoply of the plants themselves. It connects you with something larger than yourself, and teaches you about lessons that man-made life leaves out: that we don't have all the control. That alone is worth the price of admission to the gardened life.Then there is creativity and beauty. As humans we long for beauty, our eyes are never satiated with enough beauty, and our soul
Whether your grounds are large or small, the right tools and equipment can speed routine tasks and help you to successful gardening. Taking good care of your tools and keeping them in one place will pay dividends in time and effort.If you do not have a tool house or room where you can keep all your tools, and the insecticides, fertilizers, stakes, wire, paint and other equipment a well-prepared gardener should have, arrange to make space in your garage, or build a locker in a corner of your carport or breezeway. A tool shed that is like a giant kitchen cabinet can be added lean-to fashion to your garage.There are basic tools everybody needs. These include a metal shank spade or, better, the easier-to-handle and extremely useful spading fork, and the small and handy planting shovel. Then, to carry in a handbox or basket, so you will have them when you need them, your steel shank hand trowel, hand fork and hand cultivator.An iron or bow rake is fundamental, of course, and so is the bambo
Adding houseplants to your indoor decorating can add life to your home. Tropical indoor houseplants are used as often as furniture in the home. Some people decide to buy fake, plastic plants for their home, but it is often obvious. They collect dust and can look tacky.The real thing will be much better. Indoor gardening can be fulfilling and natural plants even cleanse the air, adding oxygen and reducing carbon dioxide.If you are unfamiliar with indoor gardening, the information below will be useful in showing you how you can have success in this form of planting. It is not very complicated.LightingHow will the plants get the sunlight that they need? You need to consider how much light is available in different parts of your home where you'll want flowers, and choose the plants to go in those areas accordingly. If a room is dark additional lighting can be added.The following house plants will handle medium to low amounts of light, and are therefore known to work well for indoor garden
Your Invitation to Join the Ann Arbor Garden ClubThe Ann Arbor Garden Club was originally organized in 1930. Club meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month (September though May) at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens at 1800 North Dixboro Road in Ann Arbor, MI 48105-9406. The club travels to interesting gardens, provides workshops, flower shows, flower arranging classes and plant exchanges. I hear they do much more for the nominal annual membership fee of only $20.00. If you are interested in joining the club, contact Treasurer Nancy Hart for more detailed information at 734-665-7072. I was able to visit and enjoy a beautiful display of flowers, some of which are pictured here.Kathy Toth and Teamwww.KathyToth.comReal Estate OneClick here to search all listings in Michigan with pictures and tours - FREE!
Last night Zane decided he wanted to water the lawn and plants in the backyard. He sees his grandpa do it all the time, so he knows what to do. The funny part was the fact that he was so serious about it. He was doing a job and he had to complete it. Check out the video.Rothfamilyadventures.com
Every week my Inbox fills with gardening-related, and some non-related, questions. Readers are often looking for some tips and hints to solve some of their garden problems or troubleshoot issues with their plants.
In the past, I've usually taken the time to research their queries or pass on some of my limited knowledge. Then it occurred to me that most people who read my blog would probably be able to give even better answers than I can conjure up.
So, each Friday, I plan to 'open the floor' and put out the best questions for you, the reader, to pass on your valuable knowledge. Over time, I shall devise some way of honouring the best answerers but in the meantime you can be satisfied with having your name in front of a few thousand people each day.
Here we go;
Karen asks, My large fuschia plant has been producing some seed pods. Is it possible to plant these and produce more fuschias? If so how do I go about it?
M. asks, My friend has a beautiful Lavender Crape Myrtle th
Or would like to be a green Gardner, whichever you are you would be pleased to see this little gadget from the eco outlet.
Instead of just recycling or throwing away your old newspapers, you can easily turn them into something worthwhile without creating any waste. The device will turn strips of newspaper into biodegradable planting pots, which can be used to grow your seedlings in.
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Converts old newspapers into biodegradable planting pots for seedlings.
Teaches the principles of sustainable living to younger gardeners.
Reduced consumption of resources.
This is a great idea; made from 100% FSC certified wood and can be fun for all of the family. The set is priced at $20.
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Treehugger have a great post offering some excellent ideas on How to Green Your Gardening.
As society becomes more aware of issues that affect our environment the onus falls back on us not to bury our head in the sand and hope the problems go away. So, Treehugger's post offers some helpful pointers to direct our thinking and hopefully our actions as gardeners.
There's nothing new in their Top 10 Hits of ways to go greener but their statistics are interesting, if not concerning.
While all of that was helpful the best offering Treehugger posted was their list of other sources that offered green ideas, projects and forums.
Top 10's of anything give us an insight in what others believe to be important. This list of the 10 best gardening resources is no different and I trust it will be a useful resource for you.
Top 10 Most Hated Weeds
10 Ideas to Save Water in the Garden
Top Ten Online Gardening Videos
Top 10 Vegetables to Plant in the Garden
Top 10 Garden Birds for 2007
Epinions - Top 10 Gardening Tools
Style-at-home.com's - Top 10 Gardening Tools
Top 10 Apple Varieties
10 Tips for Organic Gardening with Children
Top 10 Gardening Gifts for Mum (Mom)
Top 10 Natural Garden Plants
Top 10 Benefits of Growing Your Own Herb Garden
10 Ways to Hemp Your Garden Survive Without You
10 Edible Flowers in the Garden
Top 10 Perennials for a Xeriscaped Garden
Garden Rivals - Top Ten Gardening Tips
10 Best Garden Crops for Beginners
Top 10 Butterfly Garden Plants and Flowers
Top 10 Poisonous Plants
Top Ten Bamboos
10 Good Reasons to Garden
Top 10 Green Cities in the US
The Top 10 Must Haves in Green Garden F
NHS Blog Doctor: Paramedic, radiographer, housekeeper, midwife, gardener, psychiatristJohn Crippen has exceeded himself today. No doubt he has been at the Kipling cakes given the gross irritation he is feeling at the ongoings of the NHS today. Crippen though spots a new NHS Career website for teenie boppers.Amazing it uses the word "psychiatrist" :). It isn't pc to use that word since Ms Mellor and the GMC are doing their damnest to put forward the most amusing arguments.Nevertheless, in the cheery spirit of recruiting our teenagers into the NHS, here is my advice1. Be square2. Never write on the internet3. Always remember that you may never see your family4. 70 percent of NHS staff have psychopathic tendencies5. That goes to 1 percent of patients/relatives and campaigners.6. Always eat three shredded wheat7. Train yourselves to stop caring too much8. No using myspace and placing your profiles up there. The GMC will visit you.9. Remember that about £1500 per year goes towards the GMC
This recent article mentions how a woman had her $1000 necklace swiped while she was out enjoying a spot of gardening.
As I clicked on the article headline, I anticipated writing a post on the virtues of locking your house while outdoors - even when your only just outdoors - and it seemed too enticing to pass up. However, as I read the article it became overtly clear that this woman didn't lose her necklace while her back was turned.
In fact, it was physically ripped from around her neck by a drive-by heist...
Which begs the question, "Why is a woman gardening while wearing a $1,000 necklace?" Is this part of the new summer gardening range?
While I feel sorry for this woman, firstly for the trauma of dealing with a theft like this and secondly for losing her prized necklace, I struggle to feel any empathy. Who gardens while wearing expensive jewellry? Certainly no one in my neighbourhood...
Could this happen to you? Do you wear expensive clothes or jewellry pieces while working
18 Cent Stake Nets US$1,092,957A 39-year-old self-employed landscape gardener from a council estate in Sunderland , UK is celebrating after raking in a PartyCasino.com jackpot of US$1,092,957 off a stake of just 18 cents, a record for the online casino.OnlineCasinoNews.com reports today that Brian Somers, who normally earns around $15,000 a year, won the PartyMega Jackpot on the Super Fortune Wheel game on the online casino last week."All of a sudden the screen started flashing," said Brian in an interview with OnlineCasinoNews.com. "I was asked to choose six smiley faces. Four revealed golden dollars and the ticker at the top of the screen started to race and all these numbers came up. It said I had won over a million dollars. I thought it was a mistake. I turned the computer off and even unplugged it. I then logged back on saw $1,092,957.68 on the screen and got on the phone and they said 'your balance is over $1 million dollars sir.''Brian said that he intends to use the money to
Today I planted my first garden. It’s tiny. It’s a planter about one foot across and three wide that sits just below my north facing balcony. I’m growing basil, parsley, and dill; there will be many others if the first batch survives. I’ve had many houseplants before, and all have faired well. But this is the first time I’ve begun with just soil and seed, and also the first time that my plant plans have involved more than decoration. Herbs are needed in the kitchen. My new place has a fantastic kitchen. By fantastic, I mean the stove is gas and the smoke detector does not go off every time water boils. Standards, obviously, have been quite low. As many of you know I love to cook but have been hampered these problems as well as the city’s annoying forbiddance of gas grills in apartment complexes. Why a gas grill is more likely to start a fire on an apartment’s deck than a house’s is something I’ve yet to decipher. But in any event, my current abode has no s
Petra showing her side view at Gardener Of Eden Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival. Her face is fantasic and she is hot beautiful model.. tag: Petra Nemcova, Sexy, Hot, super sexy, Boobs Show, Skin Show, gorgeous, Red Carpet, Sexy Models, Supermodels, Unstopable Beautymodels, Babes, super model, Sexiest Bodies, World Top
There is much to be said for raised beds. For gardener and plant alike a raised bed environment has many benefits.For the gardener you get to do all your gardening from the garden path without bending over. The plants are at eye level so it’s easier to see pest and disease with the hopes of catching either early on before they do serious damage. On this note it is also easier to see the fruit as well at harvest time. Plus it just looks nice.Raised bed designs by IP Woody's Creative Woodworks For the plant there is the added benefit of a loose, custom blended soil and better drainage. Soil compaction is greatly reduced in a raised bed. The soil tends to warm up earlier in the spring and continue to produce latter in the fall. With the work area at a more accessible height weeds are less l
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Google alerts are perhaps one of the best things ever. For instance, they found me this article, which I would’ve have ever seen otherwise. The article comes from a guy who knows people who play World of Warcraft. Calling this guy a WoW player would shame the community, but he has, in fact, played the game, so in that most loose definition he is in fact a WoW player.
The point of this article seems to flip between “I don’t get why so many people like WoW” and “What’s wrong with power leveling?” but I’m just going to talk about the latter in this post, because he brings out a couple of interesting points.
He (Mike Musgrove) admits to using a power leveling service to skip those horrible levels 1-20 (because those are the annoying ones) so he could get to the more fun content. Mike gets a quote from the COO of a power leveling company in the article which is pretty interesting. I’ll quote it belo
The Iris Season
March 13th 2004 ? It seems that every wall, every verge and every garden in Tuscany grows Iris bulbs and they are now growing frantically, long green blades like tropical grass, ready to spring a colour on us, are everywhere. I hardly noticed these lovely flowers until I first went to Italy, but here they are everywhere and the road to Florence is lined with walls, pots and flowerbeds sporting Irises. The longer days, and some warm weather this week, means spring has finally appeared and has some catching up to do.
The locals here still say this has been the hardest winter in Tuscany for some twenty years, and this follows the hottest summer in closer to half a century. The last snow has left La Doccia and is only visible higher up the mountain near Vallombrosa Monastery, the weather seems to follow consistent three day patterns during the spring, 3 good days are followed by 3 bad days. The bad days mean snow, fog and rain but the good days, although frosty in the mo
Meet Colleen. The effervescent garden blogger who oozes sanguinity as she comments and shares her garden posts. I've been following her blog In the Garden Online for a little while and really enjoy her spontaneity and obvious love of her garden and gardening in general. Her generous spirit like Val and Kerri before her has given yet another great post to move our gardening efforts forward.
I'd like to thank Stuart up front for inviting me to be a guest blogger while he's gallivanting around Tasmania. Unfortunately, it's winter here, so I'll have to forgo talking about gardening. Instead, I'll talk about one of my other favorite subjects: garden blogging.
Can garden blogging make you a better gardener?
This is one of those 'chicken and the egg' questions, but as far as I'm concerned, the answer is a definite, absolute YES! I've been a gardener for a long time, first in a small bed in the first place my husband and I rented, and now in my own quarter of an acre outside of
Shaun defecating on his front lawn.q: Shaun, firstly, why are you doing that?S: ..Erghhhh..ar right, it's for me fockin' roses like...eRRgghh, ya don't mind do ya?q: No,..it's fine..so..S: Fockin' 'ell..Eggggggghhhh...you hear that fockin' clickin' sound?q: ...I...no..I don't..S: Ar, right..I thought it were a fockin' errrrrrrRRRRgggghhh,...wasp...q: ...I,..don't see one, no...S: ..I member one time right,..Ehhhhhrghgh,..me Bez tied a chicken to this geezer's van, it were fockin' hysterical-llaaaaarghhhh,..FOCK-KIN 'ell...funny fing was though, bloke turned out to be a fockin' butcher...q: ...ermm..S: ..Well, doncha geddit? Butchers, chicken...Ooooorghhhh...fockin' 'ell, I shouldn't have had all them fockin' Pot Noodles...arrr...q: .........it was a chow mein one, wasn't it..S: ...Foooooooooooooooooooockin' 'ellllll,...yeah....funny that, looks the same comin' out, dontit?q: ..(gag)..yes, quite..if we could just talk abou...S: I'm growin' marrows out back...foc
A collection of gardening advice/tips for the person who would like to start their first garden.Find out what your gardening zone is on the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map.Figure out what type of soil you have and buy a soil testing kit and make amendments.Decide on the type of garden you'd like to start. Maybe a cut flower garden, an herb garden, a vegetable garden? If you can't plant in the ground because you rent- consider container gardening. Just about anything you can grow in the ground you can grow in a container of some kind or another. Maybe some of the recent trends in green living has got you interested in organic gardening and you would like to grow your own food.Start your garden from seeds using plastic containers like soda bottle to make seed starting greenhouses. If you're interested in hydroponic gardening you can start your garden seeds using plastic baggies, since no soil is involved in the seed germination.Sit down and plan out your garden taking into consideratio
Double Miami PalmsI miss having real gardening friends. I have some internet gardening friends and have recently begun corresponding with the delightful Gardener in Mexico. Not that they aren't real people! My internet friends help to fill the void but there is nothing like a friend stopping by to stroll the garden to see what's new and leaving with a bag full of cuttings or vegetables or seeds. Even better is when that friend is a gardener experienced in the area.Most people I've met in La Ceiba aren't that interested in gardening. They hire someone to take care of all those things and never get their fingernails dirty. And the only suggestions I ever receive are to buy this or that deadly chemical which is sure to solve all of my gardening problems.Gardeners I've known are the most generous people, always willing to share advice and plants. I've had extra plants from dividing, some very large and nice plants. I tried to give them away because I really hate to see plants go to w
A week or so ago I tuned into Oprah because she was having a "Moms to Millionaires" episode where average women went from home makers - to- millionaires. I love watching those types of shows because you always think; "Gee, I could of thought of that" and then kick yourself for not having invented something so simple. Probably the best example was the mother that "invented" sticking trinkets into the holes of the sandals her daughters were wearing.By the time the inventors of the Days Ago Counter came on I was pretty much over the episode and only had the television on in the background while I was surfing the net. That was until I heard one of the inventors mention that you could use the counter to keep track of how many days ago you last watered your houseplant to give you an idea of when you should water next.Hmmm.Well that may work for some but anyone who knows anything about houseplants realizes that you can't water your houseplants like that. But then I started thinking about oth
