My Ornamental Garden Plans

When we first viewd our new home, the garden that accent the front and sides of the house as well as the perimeter of the back yard appeared lush. When we moved in, we quickly realized thistles were quite problematic in most of the garden beds. The plantings were ecclectic, and too much. Once again we resigned ourselves to ripping out the gardens and starting fresh with the look we wanted.

Repotting Houseplants and Starting Seeds

It's that time of year! Spring is just around the corner and with our ADLF quickly approaching it is time to start seeds. I have been busy repotting all of my houseplants into self-watering pots. I really do like the pots! The larger self-watering pots for the floor plants are only $7.47 at Wal-Mart which is rather inexpensive compared to some of the regular pots that size (12 - inch). I

A Busy Garden Year Ahead

I have a very busy garden year planned for 2012. Aside of doing a bit of clean-up work on the existing ornamental garden beds after moving here in September of 2011, we had done only basic yard maintenance and planning. So far, we have determined the ornamental garden beds have to be completely revamped. The two umbrella trees and arbor trumpet vine need to be replaced with something less

Replenishing My Seed Supply

When I first started growing a vegetable garden years ago, I bought mainly plants and very few seeds. As my gardens become larger and more complex, seeds entered into the picture. Now I turn to seeds I have collected from the gardens as well as buying seeds and some plants. As most gardeners experience from time to time is the only way to get plants outside of the normal limited range of quite

Planning Our New Garden Beds

When we moved into our then new house a little over four years ago it was apparent that the was a lot of major work to do. Unfortunately we spent much of those years ripping out garden mistakes as well as vegetation overgrowth. We put that house on the market eighteen months ago so while we did garden maintenance, added mulch and a couple of raised beds we really did not get to reap the