Before we filled the boxes with soil, we lined them internally with plastic liner, and we also placed cardboard at the bottom. The plastic liner helps to protect from weathering and damage. The cardboard helps to prevent weeds and grass below the boxes, and it also acts as a compost food...
Regular blog readers will remember that we moved to my childhood home a few years ago. With an acre or so of landscape I finally have enough room to put in a vegetable garden. My husband built a wonderful raised bed system, complete with critter fencing, and we’ve been enjoying the fre...
Form a cavern of pavers around the drain hole to keep back the gravel. Frogs will inhabit the cavity so its best to point the holes away from the afternoon sun or protect it with a chimney liner full of day lilies so they wont over heat. Then fill with five inches of gravel then a ...
particularly when it’s hot and sunny (as this south-facing garden is). Even with the gentlest root washing there will be a loss of fine roots. But the continuity of the soil system means that the soil around the roots will be just as moist as the rest of the bed. Roots left in s...
One year’s theme was “HoDown”, which was a hoot. Then there was “Ho Lotta Lovin” around a Valentine’s theme. This year’s theme was “HoDepot” complete with tool belt aprons. We always find a way to tie the theme into our Hoegarden roots. Next year’s theme is island/tropi...
Around the same time as the space ships landed, I also noticed these miniature cupcake liners. Or at least, that's what they looked like, nestled in a different area mulched with the same material. They were eagerly collecting seeds that were falling down from plants above. They never turn...