Before we get to this post, I just wanted to mention that I did a little tree planting 101 tutorial on The Design Confidential yesterday. Basically you shouldn’t do anything you’ve ever seen a city… [Continue Reading]
Archives for June 2011
The easiest garden ever
I’ve mentioned and recommended one of my favorite blogs, North Coast Gardening, more than once. There is loads of great information, but probably my favorite feature on the site is the product reviews. I have… [Continue Reading]
Meh now, wow later? Let's hope
You know I’m all about keeping it real here, which is why I sometimes show the bad and the ugly as well as the good. As I mentioned last week, here in the Midwest we… [Continue Reading]
Professional weather grousing
Midwesterners are professional weather crabbers. That is to say, complaining about the weather is pretty much our main hobby. The first sentence out of the mouth of many a midwestern baby has been, “Hot enough… [Continue Reading]
We interrupt your gardening to give you a reason to drool
Erin over at House of Turquoise is doing a house tour of maybe the most amazing “real” house I’ve ever seen. You’ll never believe that this is in Utah! I love damn near everything about… [Continue Reading]
Putting up walls
The hardscaping continues in the back yard. I didn’t really want to take on all these hardscaping (read: moving lots of stone) projects at the same time, but it only made sense to order all… [Continue Reading]
My name is Erin and I'm a Tomato Hoarder
There. I admitted it. They say that’s the first step. I don’t, however, think I’m alone in this. For some reason the quest for the perfect tomato, or better yet, bushels of perfect tomatoes, seems… [Continue Reading]