Creating A Peaceful Garden In Your Backyard
April 18, 2012 By
Buddha Statue for your Zen Garden Create A Zen Spot In Your Backyard It’s been a long week at work. You want a place to go to settle in with a good book (or kindle), or just hang out with a cup of coffee. You’d like to have a place where you can listen [...]
Organic is Better Than Poisoning Our Earth
June 22, 2009 By
Garden “experts” such as Paul Parent Garden Club, should NOT be promoting poisonous products to the public. On his radio show, The Paul Parent Garden Club, he promotes using Round Up. Round Up is made by Monsanto, a company who has is trying to take over the seed industry. If Monsanto has their way, we [...]
Plowing Up the Fields
May 22, 2009 By
If the tractor did all the work, then why am I so tired? Yesterday, we spent most of the day plowing up the gardens. We need to get the seedlings from the greenhouse in the gardens. We had 3 huge garden fields last year. We decided this year to combine the north and south gardens into [...]
20 Yards of Loam
May 19, 2009 By
Yesterday, we recieved 20 yards of loam. That is alot of dirt. Our chore now is to spread it around to different places in the yard to level off some areas. Some will be used to redo areas where crab grass had taken over. The crab grass was due to Freddy who dug up the [...]
Winding Down
September 13, 2008 By
The gardens are starting to wind down. I am glad in a way,?? but sad in others. It will give me a chance to get some other projects done. It gives me time to get all??my canning done before we have to start getting the yard and gardens ready for winter. Today, I will be [...]
The End of Summer?
September 2, 2008 By
The unofficial end of summer is of course today Labor Day. The kids will go back to school and most vacations have ended. Around here, summer will not end until September 21, which according to history is the Autumn Solstice. From then forward we will prepare the gardens, animals, and house??for the coming winter months. [...]
