I take this gardening business WAY too seriously sometimes and forget to sit back and enjoy the show. My garden is an explosion of color with all the early summer flowers in bloom right now.   I have high expectations of my plants to perform a certain way and do their jobs… because like… I planned it that way, yeesh. ( Type ‘A’ gardener here, lol ) But sometimes things disappear and then reappear in different spots. Once in awhile something pops up I KNOW I didn’t plant and yet other times…. a favorite d ...

  This year I decided to try a different approach to vegetable growing and came up with what I call the… Patchwork Garden Method I plan all my flower beds and bulb designs around bloom time’s…. so that as one show is ending, another begins.   It’s all about timing and this can be a little tricky as Mother Nature has her own set of rules that only she knows…..the rest of us are constantly guessing. But doing a little research and some well thought out planning instead of just buying what’s in flower ...

  I’ve seen very fancy potato bins or towers out there, but this is seriously the easiest Potato Growing Method ever! I’ve done a post in the past on this but I decided to do it again. Simply decide where you are going to build your tower in the garden. I chose at the end of two rows in my vegi bed. I loosened the soil of the spot about 2′ across then piled on rich compost to form a mound.     I laid the potatoes with their ‘eyes’ outward facing and then wrapped the mound with green plastic fencing. ...

Guess who’s been invited to give expert garden advice on a live chat feed on HomeTalk’s Facebook page? I’m guest hosting with other bloggers: A Way to Garden, BG Garden, and Wife, Mother Gardener Be sure to check it out at 11am PST and submit your questions! https://www.facebook.com/Hometalk Peace Love Garden ...