Planting a Winning Windowbox

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

I have made no secret of my disappointing past results with my windowbox flowers. This year, that is all going to change. My new winning ways began with major soil rehabilitation. I removed half of the windowbox soil and replaced it with a mixture of 2 parts new garden ...

Garden of Merit 2008

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

With a new wave of snow falling outside, it was delightful to open the big manilla envelope from Metro Blooms in today's mail and see that we had received a Garden of Merit certificate for the second year in a row.   Metro  Blooms recognizes and encourages citizen gardening in boulevards, front ...

Building The Trellis

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Although you'd never know it by my blog output, I have gotten a few things done around here this summer.  Still, my output has been far less than I had hoped, and that is putting some pressure on me to make the most of the remaining mild days this year. More ...

Cheapskate Gardening: Addition By Division

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

I have posted a lot about the garden and landscaping lately, but there are other things going on here, too. Before I cover any of the other stuff, though, Ms. Bungalow insisted I write a post on her fabulous work improving the little landscaping berm in the backyard. What makes ...

Raising The Garden, Part III

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Finished. That's a word I don't get to say or write often enough around here. At least not without conditions like "finished for today" or "finished part 'x' of much larger project 'y'." But today, I can say that the raised garden bed project is really completely finished. In Part ...