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How To Cook Green and Healthy For $10 or Less – Tomato Basil Pasta
Basil is an Italian staple and one of the herbs known for its medicinal qualities. This season I grew the Mediterranean variety of the herb, Purple Basil, in my front lawn vegetable garden. In the photo you see me picking the basil late in the season after the color – and flavor – became milder. [...]
Plant A Columbine This Season and Be Surprised Next Season!
This is a self-seeded Columbine under my only oak tree. A free plant. Growing in an unexpected place in the garden – a shady path in between a few hostas and inappropriately planted daylilies (which prefer a sunny spot to this shady one). Columbine flower heads face downward, so you rarely see the attractive petals [...]
Seed Pods and New Life in the New Year – How to Save Money In The Garden
This year has ended. Father Time has lived his life and is old, wrinkled, and ready for a long sleep. Similar to Father Time, a seed pod like the one above appears in your garden as a brown, wrinkled thing of death, yet this seed pod – yawning it’s beak as if it is a [...]
Top 10 Things To Do In Your Insanely Cold Winter Garden
It’s winter. It’s Cold. It’s Dark. It’s Wet. With a little bit more of the cold, dark, and wet repeated liberally for five months. As a year end tribute to gardening, I give you some ideas on how you can spend your winter in the garden: Shovel snow (see illustration above). Oh wait. Repeat. Every [...]
How To Keep Your Fountain On In The Winter and Enjoy Ice Sculptures
This amazing ice sculpture in my front lawn is the result of keeping the rainwater cistern fountain on all winter. It is possible because the fountain cistern is dug four feet deep – deeper than the frost line. With most traditional fountains, they must be turned off in areas which get extremely cold. Here, in [...]
How I Transformed a Mound of Dirt Into A Performance Stage and Backyard Garden of Eden
This season I had the team from Aquascape, Inc. come and build an amazing RainXChange System and fountain in my front lawn (see picture to the left). Collecting rain water from my roof for the fountain and also watering my front lawn vegetable garden with the rain water has been AWESOME! When, however, they dug [...]
Top 5 Favorite Holiday Gifts For Gardeners Under $40
Winter is here and ‘tis the season to be holiday shopping. Below are my favorite recommendations for the Top 5 holiday garden gifts that cost less than $40 (most under $20) AND can be easily ordered online. 1. RainBops Rainboots $39.95 I return over and over to the Gearcor shoe product websites. My two favorite [...]
Holiday Gifts For Gardeners – Womanswork Has Its First Garden Catalog – Hooray!
Above you see the photo of the first Womanswork Holiday Gift Giving catalog just in time for the holiday season. Their products are excellent. You can see by the pair of Hot Pink Digger Garden Gloves sitting on the catalog, that I have a passion for the gloves. I have worn these particular gloves until [...]
Black Friday Get-Your-Child-Out-In-Nature Holiday Gift Inspiration
Want your children to get outside in the garden more? What worked for me the last few years is a camera. In the photo above you see my daughter, about 7 years old at the time, taking photos of herself and everything in nature. To break the digital habit, I have her come outside with [...]
Town & Country Wellington Boots I love you!
Anyone who knows me well, knows I have a complete and utter obsession with wellington boots. Not an ordinary obsession mind you – like with coffee or chocolate – we are talking full-on Looney Tunes stuff here. Boots baby – it’s all about the boots! And no – I am non-materialistic about most things in [...]
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