My 2021 Plant Wishlist
2021 is fast approaching, over the last, maybe year, maybe 18 months. I’ve developed a plan (a 30 year plan) to turn my property into botanical gardens. I am now thinking very long term with my...
View ArticleThe Virtue of Buying Small Plants
Have you ever seen a seed grow? Stupid question right? You’re on a gardening blog I’m sure you’ve seen a seed grow. Have you ever stopped to think about the difference in vigor because something grow...
View ArticlePropagating Plants with Cuttings
I have had only very limited success in years past propagating plants from cuttings. It is something I always wanted to do, but was the one aspect of gardening I failed at, time and again. In Michigan...
View ArticleGrowing Petunias Indoors
I have a pretty neat house, and one of my favorite features is a giant skylight over a stairwell. I’ve wanted to grow flowers in window boxes around those stairs, and it gets essentially full sun...
View ArticleUsing Sunflowers to Christen a New Perennial Bed
I’m pretty excited, the last bit of construction on my house is finally done and we’ve moved into landscaping and cleanup mode and that means gardening. I have ambitious plans and I know it will take...
View ArticleGrowing Morning Glory Indoors
All of my adult life because of a combination of kids, cats, and poorly placed windows, I’ve been severely limited in my ability to grow plants indoors. First I had an apartment, with little room, and...
View ArticleHow to heat a greenhouse
So I’ve planted my greenhouse and I have things growing. I do not yet have my automatic watering system setup yet, I have drip irrigation run to about half of it, but it isn’t automated. The humidity...
View ArticleHarvesting Sweet Potatoes
I am finally moved into my new house after years of construction (its still not done and we’re at more than 2 and a half years since breaking ground) and even more years of planning, and hopefully soon...
View ArticleWeeping Blue Atlas Cedar, Cedrus atlantic ‘Glauca Pendula’
I’ve been pining after a weeping blue atlas cedar Cedrus atlantic ‘Glauca Pendula’ since I first saw it on Paul James’ Gardening by the Yard way back when. It is hard to put into words what I like...
View ArticleGreat Flowering Groundcover: Homestead Purple Verbena canadensis
I have always liked flowering groundcovers, something about a carpet of blossoms just does it for me. Plus the more ground covers I have, the less mulch I have to buy. When I lived in Michigan my go to...
View ArticleVibrant Variegated Holly
Recently on a Saturday between kids birthday parties I had some time to kill so wandered over to a nearby Lowes to look at the plants and I’m glad I did. I shop a lot at Lowes and Home Depot but...
View ArticleSunscald: White rot on the sides of my peppers
I am learning a lot of new things gardening in a new state. Including something recently. I really like growing peppers, all kinds, I think they’re relatively free from pests and diseases (especially...
View ArticleI don’t mind spots on my apples, but save me the leaves, please:...
We’ve been having a drought here, and up where my house is being built my fledgling fruit orchard is not doing super great, just not the sort of summer where they’re going to put on a big fat growth...
View ArticleThe truth about those expandable hoses
I’m sure we’ve all seen this commercial, you turn the water on and this hose grows, stretching to where you need it, you turn the water off, and it shrinks back, neatly putting itself away. It does not...
View ArticleHow to start and grow new sweet potatoes
I’ve been working on this post for months, because it is a months long process. Taking pictures along every step of the way, documenting the process. And then I lost a ton of pictures. I used some...
View ArticleGreenstalk Review
As I’ve said frequently, one of the best parts of blogging is the free review swag. I sometimes turn things down, honestly, if I just think it’s a bad idea or I know I won’t like it. But I was happy to...
View ArticleHow to garden in a concrete crack; or kale will grow almost anywhere
I was doing some tidying up in the “back yard” of our rental house where we’re living while we’re building our forever home and I moved this plastic adirondack style chair and what did I see under it?...
View ArticleHow to add more topsoil the natural way
The modern method of building is to wipe all the top soil away from a lot, build a house, and bring back 3 or 4 inches or soil or just sod and call it good. This, of course, is not good for gardening,...
View ArticleWhat is Hugelkultur?
There is this old German fairy tale where a pair of spoiled children take their parent’s hard work for granted, not appreciating what is provided for them, until a monster known as the Hugelkultur...
View ArticlePlanting Bonanza
My dirt is spread, my fence is up, I tilled in one brief window of no rain, and now after even more rain, and some nice warm weather, I have started to plant. This weekend I planted 5 apple trees in my...
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