WANTED: RABBIT RANGLER
Sometimes you think you’ve seen it all in your garden. This is our 15th summer in our house so I feel like I’ve got a pretty good handle on the comings and goings in our yard. But this year I’ve been presented with an issue I’ve not faced before. Rabbits. Many, many rabbits. Last night […]
MY QUEST FOR THE PRETTY GOOD LAWN
Hey friends! This post is sponsored by Troy-Bilt, who sent me a mower to review and paid me for my time. But you know all opinions are my own. As are all the weeds in my lawn. I’ve come to accept that I’ll never have the perfect lawn. There will always be weeds in it […]
FRIDAY FINDS
What a crazy week here. So much that was supposed to get done, didn’t. Work was nuts, the garden needs attention and there is this little voice in the back of my head that keeps whispering, “Hurry up and get on with summer.” This is standard operating procedure for this time of year for me […]
WHAT’S KILLING MY BOXWOOD? MYSTERY SOLVED
As you know, I’ve been working on the circle garden. I’ve not showed you much progress lately, but I hope to finish up the planting this weekend and I’ll be able to show you some real progress. I have, however been planting bits of it, including the first thing that went in: a centerpiece boxwood […]
WHY I DO STRANGE THINGS IN THE GARDEN
I grow an apple tree smack dab in the middle of the main part the garden, in one of the most noticeable places. It’s on one of the very dwarf root stocks so it won’t get huge and it has a somewhat wonky shape, as I think is somewhat common in apples. Apple blossoms […]