I’m very good at reducing, re-using and recycling in the garden. Every bit of plant material goes back into the soil as mulch or compost. This includes kitchen scraps, dead trees and Christmas greens – even our holiday wrapping paper is recycled. I recycle my neighbor’s leaves, used potting soil and woody plant clippings, too. [...]

A cold front with gale-force winds descended upon the Cincinnati area last Saturday – making for a really COLD soccer game. . . But that was no excuse to stay out of the garden, since my husband came through and delivered several pickup loads of the free mulch, mentioned in a former post, as a [...]

I’ve been planting a lot this week. I’ve also been moving a lot of plants around – some that I think would look better in another spot, a few that require dividing, and others that must be moved to make room for new plant treasures. Most of my planting beds are mixed beds – with [...]

We’ve had an inch or so of snow this past week, which makes everything look beautiful, but is not enough to be too hazardous. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! I like to check out the tracks in the snow to see what creatures have visited the garden. In the past few days, [...]

After a week spent on other pursuits, I finally got out into the garden this weekend. Perfect, gorgeous weather! Not too cold, not too hot, sunny and dry – with emphasis on the dry. It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve had rain in the greater Cincinnati area. The plants that I added or [...]

I spent some time last week mowing my neighbor’s lawns – and plan to do some more this week. It’s not that I don’t have enough to keep me busy in my own landscape. But I don’t have any really big trees in my yard, and they do. All those fallen leaves are a virtual [...]