It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

The stream rebuild project is coming along slowly. Lots of days where it was either way too hot, raining, or I was just too busy meant that...

It's been a few years coming, but I finally started the stream rebuild project a couple of weeks ago. It's been silent and dry (exce...

In general I'd say that I've been making decent progress on the garden projects this year. I've been out there at least a few ti...

I got started on several larger projects over the past four days or so, and none of them is finished enough to really give you a good look a...

You'd have a difficult time looking at the front of my house and convincing me that it's not colorful, at least during the growing s...

After a week in which we received somewhere around 6" (15cm) or more of rain here in St. Louis, I now have a gravel pile in my garden. ...

I'm quite happy with the progress I'm making on my list of projects for this summer . Thanks to Peter who convinced me that I didn...

I had this old sports jug taking up room in the back of one of the kitchen cabinets. I'm putting its age at 18 years old, and as you can...

A little project today that may seem a little strange to you: I need to make less room for myself in the veggie garden! It's not so...

Where do you keep your bird rescue board? What do you mean " I don't have a bird rescue board? " How then do you jack up your ...

Having recently passed my 600th post, that title could refer to INWIG itself, but it doesn't. I'm still excited about my chimney rep...

In my ideal garden there are five main components: plants, paths (open space), water, structures, and rocks. I've always wanted to add l...

I've been planting a lot of my potted bamboos in the ground lately, some of them after two or three years in a pot. Most of them are sma...

Yesterday I showed you a quick fix to a problem a potted bamboo had. As it happens that wasn't the only problem that particular plant ha...

A couple of weeks ago I got some new tropicals on clearance and potted them up. Did you see that post? Since all of the plants were water l...

I cleared this small raised bed out last fall, and until today had not decided what to plant in it. I've been debating whether or not I ...

There are a few details about my day digging bamboo that I didn't tell you about yet. As I mentioned, Michael has a lot of really inter...