Tag: gardening
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November 07, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
Now's the time to get those fall bulbs in, and I was really excited this year to have my own flower beds to put some in. I chose a really pretty Blueberry Frosting tulip that is supposed to . . .
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March 03, 2009 02:51 PM EST --
To day is a very nice, and lightly breezey day, with plenty of soft sunshine, so I decided to see a litle more to my gardening plans.
I've already plnted many onion, and these are growing nicely, . . .
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November 03, 2009 11:18 AM EST --
November can be a damp, raw month. Flowers may be scarce in the garden, but there are many berries, evergreen foliage, and trees with decorative bark to add interest on the dullest of days. You can . . .
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April 06, 2007 10:42 PM EDT --
Today I went to the Post Office and found, to my surprise, a wonderful package. It contained a bag of snowdrop bulbs all the way from Maine. I'm very excited as they came from one of my . . .
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July 02, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
After quite a stormy night, I decided to go take a look at my many frugal gardening experiments this morning. With the extreme heat and/or rain storms we have had in South Florida for the past many weeks, . . .
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March 02, 2007 10:22 PM EST --
Look, we all need something to write on our resumes or obituaries. How about member of the Pregnant Onion Club. If you're someone who has a purple thumb, as I do. If you enjoy watching . . .
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June 02, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
It's been years since I have had the pleasure of actually having a garden. First I moved in with a boyfriend and we just never got around to a garden. Then, I moved out from with him and . . .
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July 15, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
So as many of you parents out there already know getting your kids to eat vegetables is like pulling teeth sometimes. Well have you ever tried letting them grow their own? I have found since . . .
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February 23, 2008 09:11 AM EST --
In the spring of 2005, while wandering though my favorite local greenhouse deciding what kind of annuals to plant this year in the pots on my deck, I came across a cute little Meyers lemon tree. It was . . .
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May 05, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Gather, Gather How does your Garden Grow?
I’ve been attempting to be a gardener for a few years. I’ve mentioned on Gather that my gardening horror stories include garden fires and debilitating . . .
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May 16, 2008 07:58 PM EDT --
A few weeks ago, I posted on building a square foot garden with our kids. I meant to plant it pretty quickly afterwards, but then we had rain every weekend! So today, we finally got our . . .
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January 17, 2009 08:52 PM EST --
i would really like to be able to plant more in are garden this year i know i want to plant enough for canning and just eating we have to households on our farm mine and my moms where . . .
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January 27, 2009 07:54 PM EST --
Guerrilla gardening is political gardening , a form of nonviolent direct action , primarily practiced by environmentalists . It is related to land rights , land reform , and permaculture . Activists . . .
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April 06, 2009 12:51 PM EDT --
Wow! I transplanted my hostas last year and they are coming back. They were planted all together and last year they looked like they were suffocating. So, I spread them out all over my flower . . .
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May 02, 2008 09:58 PM EDT --
We have a rabbit that's been joining us for dinner the last few nights. As we're at the dining table eating, he's right outside the window gobbling up dandelions. It's the . . .
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July 03, 2008 01:54 PM EDT --
We have four large blueberry bushes that we planted years ago when we bought our home. They produce very well every year. Last year I didn't think anything of it because I was busy with . . .
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February 28, 2009 02:22 PM EST --
There is a new gardening contest that starts tomorrow. The prize is a gold medal. Probably not real gold, but still it would be nice to win. Click here to go to the contest page - . . .
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March 02, 2009 04:07 PM EST --
I bought a hibiscus tree last year, I call it my Charlie Brown tree.
It was on the clearance rack and I had to save it.
You may remember the photos I posted last year.
I brought it in for the . . .
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May 02, 2009 03:34 PM EDT --
I have two light purple lilacs and one deep purple lilac. Several years ago a friend of mine gave me one and said it was a white one that she got from her Aunt. I love planting anything. . . .
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June 08, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
Winters in New England can be very harsh and one can become very comfortable staying at home and curling up on the couch with a great book. Except for maybe walking a dog, I get little exercise . . .
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