I’ll admit it: I am terrible at taking care of my tools. At the end of a long day in the garden, I’m lucky to remember to put them away. When I do, it’s usually with clumps of soil still adhering. This year, though, I have resolved to be different. How will I pull off [...]
Like gardeners everywhere, I can’t wait to get gardening in spring! So it finally happened – I sowed some seeds, both indoors and out, the other day. Outdoors, I planted snow peas and sugar snap peas, spinach, leeks and onions right on schedule. Pushing the season a bit, I also started some lettuce, carrots, radishes, [...]
Strawberries from Florida and California have been appearing at the supermarket in past few weeks, for what seems to me to be pretty reasonable prices. Which makes me long for some fresh picked strawberries from the garden! Strawberries are a favorite at our house, and we do buy them at the store, but I prefer to eat [...]
Last fall, I blogged about overwintering tender plants like geraniums, coleus and begonias by taking cuttings. Since cuttings from these plants break new roots so easily, I just put them in a vase of water and wait for the roots to form. It’s kind of like having a row of flower arrangements in my window! When [...]
The 15th of each month is Garden Blogger Bloom Day. Bloggers from around the world trek out with camera in hand to document what is blooming in their locale. My trek out was a bit soggy on this March 15, with rain and thundershowers expected today and tomorrow. Still, there are a few interesting things [...]
Seed starting time is approaching. I’ll be starting my tomato and pepper plants, cabbage family plants and others next week. The one thing that has made the biggest difference to my seed-starting success has been growing the seedlings under supplemental light. I just set up the light stand above, and moved a few plants into [...]
When I went out to do some spring cleaning in the garden last week, my first task was to gather up my garden gloves. Here are all the gloves I could find. You will probably notice that there are 5 left-hand gloves, but only one for the right hand. And the right hand one is [...]
Wow! Another beautiful, warm sunny day. It’s hard to believe that this is early March. While I’m not really fooled into thinking we’ve seen the last of our winter weather, I am planning to spend the afternoon doing things in the garden that usually get done later this month. I’ll be cutting back my ornamental [...]