It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Well, at least my legs are. Tired of mulch that is. That huge (approximately 10 cubic yards) pile of wood chipping on my driveway finally g...

I learned a little bit about the mulch pile the other day . Sure you can shell out for high-quality hardwood mulch, a homogeneous mound...

So, that mulch pile that's on my driveway? It's much larger than I thought it was.

In what is becoming an annual part of my winter gardening activities, I once again had a huge load of free wood chips delivered. Unlike...

Our mild weather (it was 60ºF when I took these photos yesterday morning) will be swept to the south, replaced by frigid air and ice, sleet,...

A short post on a busy day. Although we had our first freeze the other night, temperatures will be in the lower 60's F today so it's...

Remember last year when I planted several running bamboos in the "hell strip" (aka "parkway" or "parking strip...

I was hoping to post today about my project that required creative thinking , but I realized I forgot to take a couple of key photos so it ...

I wasn't planning on doing a lot of mulching this weekend, but the unannounced delivery of the wood chips changed my plans. Sixty-...

Even though I live in suburban St. Louis in a fully residential neighborhood, the terrain required the builders 40 years ago to leave fairly...

As I've already mentioned, I've been doing some mulching lately . One thing I've learned this year is that when you get a load o...

This Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Filicoides' was planted in 2006 when we had the trees taken down and I built the patio area. It was abou...

This weekend I drove past the community mulch pile on the way back from some home improvement shopping and I noticed a nice big pile of free...

That's what I said to many of my bamboos this weekend, as I gave them their first fertilization of the year. Why did I say this? ( Wh...

As you may know, my veggie garden is a small fenced-in area that usually gets a lot of attention from me early in the year, but then by the ...

Even though I've just recently done this , it's time for another collection of mini-topics. Starting with a simple solution to a ...

Yesterday after I mulched the horizontal potted bamboos , I mulched several of my in-ground bamboos too. I've been mulching all of them ...

An alternate title for this post could be "how to greatly underestimate the time and effort a job will take when it's only 35ºF and...

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...