“Don’t over think it. It’s not rocket science” I love that quote. It comes from a guy whose name is Ray. He has a youtube channel called “Dance in the Sunshine” (Praxxus55712). I have been watching his videos now for about two years. I also like the reason he explains as to why he named […]
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Garden-a-holics-anonymous
I think there should be a garden-a-holics anonymous…. A place where we can be us. We can compare notes, sing the praises of daylilies, write an ode about our favorite rose or meditate on the best plants to use in our Japanese gardens. Where everyone understands why we “just have to ” buy that […]
Continue readingUsing Raised Beds in Gardening
A raised garden bed is a garden that has 4 sides boxed in with material (wood, concrete, logs, bricks etc) to hold your soil in one place raising it in the process. You can also have a raised garden bed with no sides at all. It would just be like a hill that is higher […]
Alan Titchmarsh helps us to garden.
I discovered Alan Titchmarsh while I was browsing gardening videos. He is British, charming and he has a beautiful soothing voice when he speaks. Also, I’ve noticed that when he speaks, he uses normal everyday language without all the dressy long dictionary words. How to be a gardener is 8 series of videos on gardening […]
Continue readingLily beetles nearly destroyed all my garden lilies.
If you see these bugs on your lily flowers……ON GUARD!!!!!. they are NOT lady bugs. Creep up closely and squash them. Have you noticed mud spots on the undersides of your lily leaves? Those are the red lily beetle larvae that covers itself in its poop. Yeah you read right, that baby […]
My half moon garden construction
For the longest time I’ve dreamed of having a curving garden in front of my beautiful pine tree. However I came across a tiny problem called digging. Pine trees have shallow roots and there is no room to dig. I was barely able to rip off the top grass. To bypass this little problem I […]
A quick Viola Planter
How many of you can resist a sticker that says 50 percent off? No I can’t either. I went to the grocery store to buy dish soap not flowers and these were just screaming take me home. So of course I bought the flowers and forgot about the dish soap, gotta go back again. […]
Continue readingEgyptian Walking Onions
Egyptian Walking Onions are one of the first plants to emerge in the spring even when there is still snow on the ground. Many people still don’t know that this onion is a perennial. You pop it in the ground and it grows year after year and makes lots of babies, so with just a […]
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