It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

I don't have time to say much today, which is sometimes how things go in the garden: you don't have time to do very much but need to...

Sometimes when I'm working in the garden I look up and think "wow, this really looks great!". At other times I look up and thi...

I was searching for some older photos this morning, and decided that it would be a good day to take a look back, just to put things into per...

Today I finish up the walkway project. In part one I dug it and laid most of the stones. In part two I finished the details and filled the...

It's been a while since I took a look at my small veggie garden, but I've mentioned it briefly in a few other posts recently. Things...

I received a surprise the other day: a request from a reader and fellow gardener to show what this planting bed that I reworked back in June...

I'm getting tired of the jungle of potted plants on my driveway. Last weekend I finally got about 20 percent of them moved into better p...

Each year I seem to have a new plant obsession. This year it is elephant ears and sempervivum. A few years ago it was thymes, and I prepared...

I'm a gardener who makes his own potting mix. It's not that I'm really fussy about the mix I use (I'm not), or that I don...

I've always bought the cheapest work gloves I could find, which usually means getting something canvas, or combination thin suede/canvas...

Things change and progress in a garden -- that's what they tend to do, whether or not you do anything. Here's an update on pretty mu...

A little less than a week ago I started a little test to see if the corn gluten I had purchased as a pre-emergent herbicide would have any ...

A while back I wrote about my new work boots , what I'll be wearing when digging, mowing, essentially doing anything other than strollin...

Yesterday I posted about a lawn care task, specifically applying corn gluten as a pre-emergent herbicide. It's organic, safe, prevents w...

Although I feel like I could work in the garden every day, all year long, it's probably good that there are a few months during the wint...

In the history of my yard's transformation into a garden, I stopped at late summer 2008, hinting about a storm. On September 14, the sto...

After the projects of 2006 that gave my garden "purpose" and the excitement of 2007 in buying lots of new plants to fill in around...

After the huge projects of 2006, 2007 was relatively quiet. I didn't need to excavate any giant holes, move any rocks or build any struc...

Today I finish up 2006 (in the history of my garden) with three projects and lots of photos. I've already talked about clearing the spac...

If you've been following along the last few days as I chronicle the changes in my yard over the past few years, you'll know that we...