Garden

How to Be Lazy Gardener

  ...and still have a pretty garden  With a busy household and jobs, we are sometimes just too busy to…

5 years ago

A water-saving veggie garden for the foothills

Your water-wise veggie garden Does everyone in our Mountain Community grow at least one tomato? I think so! For me,…

6 years ago

Enjoying Winter gardening in the foothills

Winter chores and pleasures! It’s sunny and 70º as I write this and it’s a reminder that our winter weather…

7 years ago

Green and serene: My woodsy sitting area

First exercise,…then relax……completing a 'relaxing' project! Friends, I’ve been stretching, doing knee bends and weight-lifting! At the gym? No,…my latest…

7 years ago

California Bush Anemone!

Happy discovery! On Crane Valley Rd (221), just north of Manzanita Lake Rd,(222) going toward Bass Lake, I discovered something…

7 years ago

Grow ‘Cut and Come Again’ salad garden

How to grow a Salad! Thinking about 'Cut and Come Again' salad gardens...you may have already started lettuce or mesclun…

8 years ago

Growing your garden, all from seed!

Learning to grow from seed It's Spring!  My friend, Marie, inspires me so much with her courtyard garden fitted with…

8 years ago

Earliest Spring bloomers to plant now

Winter and early spring blooming plants Brighten these grey, rainy days in the foothills with cool-season bloomers in containers and…

8 years ago

Pretty propagating: How To Multiply your Plants

Propagating plants in a Sierra foothill garden Propagating plants is making new plants from existing ones in your garden. Anyone can…

8 years ago

Growing Iris, Planting bulbs and sowing wildflowers

Fall is time for dividing iris, planting and sowing wildflower seeds... Bearded Iris Growing Tips Spring-flowering bulbs thrive in full…

9 years ago

Last day of June in the garden

What I'm REALLY doing in the garden...last day of June I just came in from an hour out in the…

9 years ago

‘First week of June’ gardening day

Just came in from the garden,...perfect day to be out there, especially with my camera. There was really nice, even…

9 years ago

Growing veggies in the remnants of straw bale garden

This Year's Veg Garden Experiment: The last two years have been straw bale gardens with great success!  This year, there…

10 years ago

Then and now, slope full of blooming shrubs

In a series of Then and Now photos, it's satisfying to look back nostalgically to see how far we have…

10 years ago

Winter welcome in the Sierra foothill garden

A Winter walk-around What's blooming? What's happening? A walk through my garden just before Winter begins. First off, the patio…

10 years ago

The colors of Autumn in the Sierra foothill garden…

October in the foothill garden Walking around the garden here in the foothills of Central California, I feel we're really…

10 years ago

Straw Bale gardening in the Sierra foothills: Harvest

Harvesting the straw bale garden I call this experiment a success!   After reading and reviewing the book Straw Bale Gardens…

11 years ago

Planting in an old wicker chair

I’m a fan of this chair! Take a couple old pieces of junk and transform them into into a tiny…

11 years ago