It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Now that Thanksgiving is in the past, I'm no longer working long, long days at the bakery. It's amazing how many people want pies fo...

Answer: Compost made from food waste! Sure, as gardeners we routinely save kitchen scraps and add them to our compost piles (you are doing t...

It's been a while since I've mentioned eggshells. It's difficult to ignore them right now though. This one is on the drivew...

I've mentioned before that my wife brings home lots of fruit scraps from the baking company. Banana peels are the main fruit refuse, bu...

My veggie garden area is pretty small -- the fenced area that is safe from herbivores is 13' x 13'. You may remember that I recently...

So you're a gardener. You have a compost pile, right? You're diligent about collecting kitchen scraps for the compost pile, even thr...

We save kitchen scraps for our compost pile. I know that technically the peels, eggshells, and other degradable waste really doesn't mak...

I'm going to be mulching most of my in-ground bamboos and some of the other planting beds in a month or so, to provide them with extra w...

I'm pretty bad with neglecting my vegetable garden at various times of the year. You've seen what it looked like at the start of the...

I spend so much time in the backyard gardens, I tend to forget the front yard. It needs "a bit" of tidying. The main problem is th...

After a pretty dry start to Spring in St. Louis, the rain has started coming more regularly. Thursday and Friday we had strong, gusty winds ...