After a few weeks of discussion, I finally got the Country Doctor to build a fence for my garden.
He wanted to pound a few metal stakes in the ground, stretch out some chicken wire, and call it done.
I really needed something a little prettier.
Yes.
I did…
Hey!
My garden is right outside the windows by my kitchen [...]
I am calling this one Garden Greens with Blue Bowl.
And this one… Garden Greens, Blue Bowl, Show Cat #1.
Green, Blue, Scissors.
I snipped the tender lettuce, the crinkly spinach, and a mesclun mix that is primarily dominated by a robust arugula, brought them in the house and covered them in cold water to get rid of [...]
Attention any real gardeners who might be reading this post!
The girl who planted this garden does not know what she is doing.
Repeat!
She does not know anything about gardening!
She just got some dirt, and put some seeds in it. Amazingly some things are actually growing! It is the most exciting thing that has ever [...]
My garden is just about planted. I have one corner left that still has room for something… maybe a cantaloupe?.. A pumpkin?.. A tiny patch of corn?
Probably not corn.
My one experience with growing corn involved a horror movie scream coming from my own mouth each time I ripped open a tender ear [...]
Wait!
Not Tipsy in the Garden!
I meant Garden TIPS!
A few Garden TIPS from my father-in-law Joe!
This is the way to Joe’s garden.
Inside there is a bountiful harvest of garden wisdom.
A few years ago Joe started planting his tomatoes and cucumbers inside of these sunken buckets which were placed inside of his raised beds, which were [...]
Last Spring, I watched as my boss at the Garden Center, eagerly snatched one very tall, gangly plant from the green house and headed outside to plant this homely plant by the fence in front of the store. I was aghast. We were literally hemmed in on all sides by plants that were [...]