dirty

watering the plants

[postcard design by MangoThree]
I have to admit… seeing all of the lush greenery back east over the last few weeks has really made me crave some quality gardening time of my own…
How’s your little/big/container/awesome garden doing right now?!? Any big June plans for it?!?

before & after: the bark

Memphis asked to be in the photo today to help you gauge the appropriate size of the current bark pile. It’s actually been that way since Wednesday night at 7:30, but my left arm/shoulder was too sore to hold a camera steady to take the picture. The four cubic yards of bark is in the [...]

The monster garden

After we laid down the white garden liner in our backyard, our weekend schedules got a little out of whack, and we kept delaying and delaying the purchase of the mulch for the beds. In the meantime, our tightly covered garden started growing mounds like this one above.
I thought they were just monster weeds… until [...]

now how do you plan a garden?

I really wish that planning a garden was as simple as a visit to a nursery/garden center, buying up all of the pretty plants that you see, placing them in the ground with love and support (and water) and watching them flourish. Sadly, that was our experiment last year… and it didn’t work out. Then [...]

more than a splash of color in the garden

I think I’m just going to turn this whole week into “garden week” — why not, since it seems to be the underlying theme to my activities around the house. Everyone else seems to be in the same spring mood as I am, as the nurseries are packed with customers and the hardware stores are [...]

a sweltering day in the garden

Did you know how hard it was for me to find a simple strawberry pot this weekend??? No one seems to carry these practical terracotta pots en masse, but thank goodness an old local hardware store had some sitting outside so I could stop buy and pick one up. Finding strawberry plants was just as [...]