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Culinary Herb garden in a basket
Finding a large woven basket can be useful as a kitchen garden in a small garden or where deer abound. Sometimes…
How to make your own delicious dried tomatoes
How to dry your tomato harvest to enjoy gourmet dried tomatoes all winter long If you have a good crop of…
Hypertufa workshop…fun!
Last month, my friend, Cheryl and I, committed to giving a workshop to the garden club on a subject we were…
How to make Hypertufa Troughs
What are hypertufa troughs? Hypertufa (pronounced hyper-toofa) is a mixture of peat moss, perlite, cement and water. Old stone watering troughs…
Encouraging wildlife with a ‘habitat’
A Backyard Habitat is a transformation of your garden into a place that provides the things wildlife need to live…
Building benches and paths of desire
Places to sit in the garden? You've got to have them. Especially when the place is affectionately called 'Rancho Relaxo.'…
Not Blow wives, Silverpuffs
Dang, and I put the name in the post title… A few days after posting Dandelions, Grand dandelions and Blow…
In which, I clean up my potting bench
The difference between trash and junk I posted a picture of my terribly messy potting bench area on my FB page,…
Volunteer dill peeks in window
Oh, Joy! Dill is a versatile herb, one that I really use in cooking. First planted in 2005, I’ve never…
Let’s check on Fall and Winter projects!
This snowy, drippy day...what else to do but check on past projects. Getting rid of Mexican Primrose 10-15-2010 Invasive plants…
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