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Have you ever pored through garden catalogs and websites looking for beautiful plants, marveled at the photos of lush, elegant plants, placed your order and waited in anticipation for…a nine inch brown twig with bare roots to arrive on your doorstep? I’ve had so many disappointments with that exact scenario, so it is with [...]
Yes, it’s true. Realistically, by August 28, I SHOULD have a half century of wisdom to impart to the masses. I’m sorry. I’m not sure what went wrong. — lol – But there’s still good news! If I don’t go too dark, I can still pull off coloring all that “wisdom” out of my [...]
It’s time for a garden update. Our back yard makeover is in a stall, right now, with the relentless summer heat, but I’m tickled that the garden continues to grow and thrive. I absolutely love our Greenland Gardener Double Bed Raised Garden Bed. I have a second one sitting in the box, ready to assemble [...]
It’s crazy how fast the summer gets away from us. We have been plugging away at projects, inside and out, hosting get-togethers and family weekends, celebrating the Fourth of July in “Fourth of July City” (Independence Day is sort of a big deal, here in our little town! ) I still get to help with [...]
You all read our DIY list for our new house, in yesterday’s post. Well, here’s the first item to mark off the list! Do you all remember my first raised bed gardens? They were so beautiful and productive! Then we went two summers without a garden, because of all the moving. I’m so excited to [...]
One if by land and two if by sea — well not really, but with the crazy amounts of rain we’ve been having, you can never be too sure. Lots of rain and cooler than average weather put a lot of energy into growing strong, lush plants — but not much in the way of [...]
Until this past week, our weather has been so cool and rainy, I was beginning to think we would only be able to grow lettuce and spinach, this year. But true to Nebraska form, the weather turned quite abruptly and we experienced the first days hot enough to send my trembling finger to the thermostat [...]
I had a chance on Sunday afternoon, to start cleaning up the flowerbeds and planning my “portable garden” in my head. (I know, I know…no longer a safe place for storing things.) We moved away from this home in November of 2007 and moved back in August of 2009. After nearly two years of neglect, [...]
Holly Hirshberg’s passion for gardening has blossomed into a non-profit organization aimed at feeding the world. Holly expanded her family garden as the economy began to decline, so she would have extra produce to donate to her local food pantry. She realized very quickly that it would be more help, greater security and a sense [...]
I have a renewed hope for spring. The seed catalogs are here! I would say by the time we moved last August, the most difficult thing for me to leave was my beautiful garden. We have never lived somewhere where I had the space and time to do it well, until then. And it became [...]
