I hate to whine about the weather so much, but my goodness it has been COLD here. I have a lot of seedlings in the temporary greenhouse and I’ll be honest, I haven’t gone in… [Continue Reading]
Archives for April 2016
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: WEEK 4
If you’re wondering what all this bathroom talk is in the middle of high gardening season, I’m participating in the One Room Challenge, a quest to renovate one room in six weeks. Start from the… [Continue Reading]
GREAT CONTAINERS AT ANY PRICE
Yesterday I wrote about the factors to consider when choosing a container. You can read it here, but I broke it down to four factors: Size (err on the side of bigger) Style (what suits… [Continue Reading]
HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT CONTAINER
You know that gardening season is truly upon us when I start dreaming about container plantings. In preparation for this year’s containers I have been poring over Deborah Silver’s old blog posts, combing through Pinterest… [Continue Reading]
FRIDAY FINDS
I have more garden cleanup (both my own and at a master gardener project) on the schedule for this weekend, a date with some nasty garlic mustard weed that, I kid you not, grew 5… [Continue Reading]
ONE ROOM CHALLENGE: WEEK 3
First off, thank you all for your wonderful comments from Week 2. I’m happy to say that thanks to some insanely long hours by our tile guy, the tile portion of this project is moving… [Continue Reading]
FAILURE, AND SUCCESS, COMES EARLY
We’re well into seed-starting season at this point. I can tell because I’m bored with it. Well, not bored with it, but it is lot of work to check on those little guys multiple times… [Continue Reading]