Gardening
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Save Money, Grow Raspberries
For many people edible gardening isn’t just about having fun, its about saving money. However what can you really grow that is going to cost you less in time and effort than at the grocery store? Well, what tends to be quite expensive at the grocery store? Things that do not keep or ship well, […]
Hot and Humid
I haven’t been posting much because I haven’t been gardening much, it has just been too hot and too humid. Our heat index has been between 90-100 for the past week. It also sucks because I can’t even take good pictures of my garden to blog about things (and I like to have pictures with […]
Weeding Concrete Cracks
So I was driving down the road yesterday and saw this poor women hunched over viciously tearing out the weeds in the cracks of her driveway. Unfortunately this lady must not be big on gardening because she didn’t know there is a better way. I like to use RoundUp or another herbacide to do it. […]
My Babies are Born
I’ve had an exciting week. After 18 months my daylily seedlings have bloomed (2 of them anyways). Here is one and here is the other. Hybridizing daylilies is a fun and easy activity to try. Each daylily has a single pistil, or female part, and multiple stamen, or male parts, sticking out of the bloom. […]
Pictures of My Garden
I’ve posted pictures of various plants in my garden, but never really large shots showing you exactly what my beds look like. However, since my beds are starting to look really good, I wanted to share, so here are some big pictures. This is a picture of the bed that curves along my back fence. […]
60 Bags of Mulch
I had 60 bags of mulch delivered from Lowes this morning. The picture is 20 bags of 3 cubic feet each and 40 bags of 2 cubic feet each. I have in the past gotten a full 60 bags of the 3 cubic feet and that pile was significantly more. This time though I got […]
‘Eden’s Paintbrush’ Japanese Iris
My first japanese iris began blooming today. Called Eden’s Paintbrush I got it from Spring Hill 2 summers ago and it is finally blooming. Sure, Spring Hill is cheap, but no one has ever accused them of sending large plants. I really enjoy the japanese iris flower forms. Their standards (those are the up-petals) are […]
Irresponsible Watering
So I’m driving back from a weekend at my parents house in one of the worst rain storms I can remember yesterday. It was pouring, practically no visibility at some points. We get off the freeway and I drive by this row of condos and guess what, their sprinklers are going. This is wrong for […]
Petunias: My Favorite Annual
I wrote a new article today, all about petunias, enjoy! (and yes, since I decided to turn my more article-like blog posts into actual articles I’m going to just be linking to them instead of reposting them here.)
Backyard Gardening Site Launched
I have finished my new site. Backyard Gardening is an article driven site on gardening. It includes a Gardening Forum. This move might seem odd to most people. This blog is not very old nor altogether that popular, so expanding it may seem premature. However publishing websites is what I do for a living (since […]