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…

6 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

7 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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