It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

I've given the milkweed patch in my garden a few years to start attracting swarms of monarch butterflies, and because this is common mil...

There is much bamboo work to do this spring. Much is normal maintenance: pruning, cleaning. The dry fall and harsh winter have created an ex...

The other day when the temperature reached 82ºF (28ºC) I knew I had to take advantage of it and get something done in the garden. But what? ...

After many hours of effort, much downloading, re-downloading, checking and double-checking, some headaches and discoveries... ...I can ...

As you probably have noticed, I've been going long stretches this summer without posting -- sometimes only one post a week (or less)! Ma...

Emboldened by Peter's recent post about the less attractive parts of his garden, I'm going to share with you the three "nightm...

My Indocalamus tessellatus bamboo has such large leaves, it's really a standout even among so many other bamboos. Unfortunately it gets ...

Limited garden time and relatively small weather windows (times when it's not raining or sopping wet) means that my spring garden cleani...

Although the warm weather has left, it was clear and dry this weekend. With a long list of bamboo-related chores to get done, I decided to t...

One of my biggest springtime garden tasks is cleaning up the bamboos. Sometimes this means thinning and tidying the big, arborescent bamboos...

Did you miss part 1 of my pond makeover ? Monday started with more bailing, and this is when it started getting really, well, crappy. I...

Yesterday I mentioned that the sight of my pond stopped me from continuing with my spring garden cleanup, and teased that today I would rev...

Our warm weather has not only put me in a mood for some garden cleanup, but it's given me some extra time to do it too. Logically that d...

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...

It's been a few months since I noticed the tears in the pond liner, keeping the water level so much lower than normal. I've been put...

As I mentioned recently, I've had some time to spend in the garden finally, and this post is a look at some of what I accomplished. It m...

It's the time of year that I have mixed feelings about: bamboo chopping time. It's a happy time because it means that spring is here...

I've been in the garden cleaning things up for the past week. After a day off yesterday because of an unexpected snow, I should finish u...

The title of this post is a bit misleading, as I don't see the subject as really a "problem" -- not a big one at least. It...

The other day after cutting down the bananas and preparing them for winter I decided it was also time to remove the pond netting. I us...