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How I Built a Hot Damn Happy Front Lawn Vegetable Garden in a Drought Year
This summer has been a drought-filled doozy in Chicagoland, redefining the phrase “hot damn” and killing unsuspecting annuals and vegetables in gardens across the Midwest. Our temperatures have matched Santa Fe, New Mexico’s heat and until mid-August we were inundated with drought. Believe me, we front lawn garden vigilante’s have a watering bill that rival [...]
When Good Onions Go Bad – Garden Failure and Flowers
Every year I fail in the garden. No really. I FAIL. Repeatedly. There is always something that rots or gets eaten by bugs or dies a tortured death and keels over for good. Last year it was tomatoes. This year it is onions. Every day of the drought this summer I watered the onions and [...]
A Darling Little Ice Cream Cone Container Garden
Recently I traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico to appear on several news tv programs and run a seminar at High Country Gardens, an amazing nursery which specializes in low water plants and eco-friendly landscaping. While walking through the nursery I spotted the coolest little bit of a planter – an ice cream cone container literally [...]
Vitamin-Rich Shade Vegetable Garden Design Wins Contest
This year’s Garden2Blog 2012 Event with 20 of my closest blogger friends was SO FUN. One of the things we all did together was enter a garden design contest utilizing a raised 4 X 4 foot planting bed. I designed a shade vegetable garden with strong vitamin rich plants to help feed a family during [...]
How To Plant A Tomato (Rip Off Ralph’s Arms) – Garden Growing Results
Mid-summer is one of my favorite times of the year; it is when the tomato harvest is coming on hard and strong. Above you see a photo that shows how my tomatoes are growing this season – ripening up nicely! Fresh tomatoes are like manna from heaven and I could eat them right off the [...]
Does The GrowBox Container Garden System Work?
Planting a garden in the drought filled water-starved wilds of suburbia can be a challenge. In Chicagoland, for instance, we have had a month of 95 degree Fahrenheit days and higher with nearly three months of drought. This week we saw 102 degrees. I stepped outside my front door and my eyelids melted onto my [...]
Happy Fourth of July – I Am Proud To Have Organic Broccoli Love!
Living with freedom is taken for granted in the United States. Many people around the world are starving this July 4th. They don’t know or care where their food comes from or if it has chemicals in it or any of those other concerns because they are starving to death and dependent on others to [...]
Plant An Extra Row of Vegetable Garden For the Hungry; Help Your Community
A shocking statistic from AmpleHarvest.org says,”an estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States.” This is an astounding statistic – it is time we all make a difference for our community by stopping the waste and starting vegetable donation. Definitely consider planting an extra row of vegetables for the [...]
Secret Recipe For Drought Tolerant Container Garden Soil Mix
This has been one rough season for container gardens in the Midwest. Hot. Dry. Sweltering. No rain. That has been the forecast day-in and day-out. I have done rain dances, prayed to the gods, and of course drank margaritas; all with very little success. One thing that has really helped my containers hold on this [...]
Friends and Flowers; A Relaxing Visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden Early Summer
While attending the Garden2Blog event, I spent a great last morning having fun with three garden writers who happen to be a few of my closest friends – Carolyn Binder, Michael Nolan, and Christopher Tidrick. We ate a magnificent southern breakfast, then wandered Little Rock, Arkansas fully caffeinated and happy to be in each other’s [...]
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