Gardening Blog Posts

My raised bed vegetable garden died this year. I am heart-broken, but determined to find the cause and the remedy!

I’m addicted to gardening shows. During one watching spree, I tuned into what the gardener was saying, not only what he was doing, as he strolled through the pathways and trails in his backyard urban-lot garden. I realized that his garden’s organized chaos was kind of like mine. He used the word permaculture to describe the plan behind his horticulturist chaos. What is permaculture anyway?

The heat has arrived earlier than normal this year. It feels like August, but we still have some gardening guidelines for June to check off!

A kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God’s heart in a garden, than anywhere else on earth!

Its hard to create a summer window box that not only survives, but thrives in the Texas heat! I put my mind and trowel to it when a friend asked me to help her out.

“How did you make that ivy tower?” That’s the question I hear each time someone new walks out my back door. Building this tower is your next project for your spring, summer, and fall!

I’ve dug up my lawn in a strip along the sidewalk leading up to our front door. Why? It’s my experiment to do a seasonal cutting garden propagated from only seeds.

It’s early spring and I’m itching to get outside and play in the dirt. I have a cherished sign given to me by a friend that says, “dirt therapy.” For me, there’s no better prescription for chasing away the blues than digging in the moist, rain-drenched spring soil. I am assured that all my hard work amending the soil in the fall has paid off. The bumper crop of earthworms right below the mulched surface greets me as I dig in to divide and transplant my perennials.