Making a self-watering planter

Making a self-watering planter

After I wrote my previous gardening blog, I began looking into different ways for patio gardeners to keep their pots watered. I know I have a tendency to let my watering slide, which is why I didn’t use my large pots last year, but I knew there were various ways...

Plants in Unexpected Places

Got your veggies in yet? The one part of gardening I don’t love (besides the weeding, which isn’t all that bad if it’s not too hot out) is watering. Let me get my hands in the dirt, or plot out where everything is going to go. Better yet, let me...

Gardening Like Laura

If you discount snitching peas off the vine when I was a preschooler as actual gardening experience, you could say I first began gardening in my early elementary school years. The summer after I discovered Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books, I was...

Where did spring go?

When things heat up, it’s time to play in the dirt. Yes, I know the last frost date for my area isn’t for another two weeks, but since all of the daffodils and tulips have died out, and the irises are just getting ready to bloom, my yard is looking pretty...

Springtime siren calling to me

Every year about the time cabin fever begins to kick in I start haunting the boards at Gardenweb.com, planning for the new growing season, and looking at the garden junk forum for ideas. Then I spend hours planning for the new season. Last winter I spent the time...