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Thursday, October 9, 2014

Flowers Blooming in My Garden: Photo Gallery

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Even though the weather has changed and the evenings have been dipping into the low thirties there are still flowers blooming in my gardens...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

Early Fall Yard Work: Trimming Grass / Brush

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For the last three days my husband and I have been working together to clean up the yard and gardens.  The weather is cooler and we find i...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Gardening to Relieve Stress: Great Therapy

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In my desire to rid my body of stress, I put on my gardening gloves and went outdoors to do some hand-pulling of weeds in the flower garden...
Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Gardening in the Heat of the Summer

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Now that the peak heat of the summer is here I make a point to get up at dawn so that I can get whatever yard or garden work completed.   D...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Transplanted Herb Plants During Growing Season

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A couple days ago I transplanted my indoor herbs into outdoor containers because they weren't doing so good indoors and thought t...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Summer Season Gardening Checklist

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Now that spring has come to an end, I find that I need to get my garden ready for summer. Today I went into the garden with a clipboard so ...
Friday, June 6, 2014

Preventing Bug Bites While Gardening

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If I was ever going to enjoy the garden again I knew I would have to take steps to prevent the bugs from biting me.  This year the biting ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Gardening Today: Cutting back Brush

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Gardening today took me to the side yard where there was a lot of underbrush as well as low-hanging tree limbs that needed to be trimmed....
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Pavestone Adds Definition to Flower Garden

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Today I am working on my side flower garden and decided to make it more interesting so I added 12-inch pavestone and also a pea g...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Michigan Bulb: Honest Business and Product Review

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Michigan Bulb company has been in business for 60 years and as a kid, I recall seeing their shade and sun garden collection in the circular...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Suburban Raccoon Visits Yard and Garden

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For the last couple of days, I  have noticed that the mulch in my garden has been pulled away from the plants and in some cases, it is all p...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Planted an Herb Garden Today

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Here in USDA growing zone 6 the threat of spring frost has past and now it is safe to garden. So I took advantage of the warm and sunny day ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Shopped Online for Garden Replacement Plants

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Now that my garden has grown in I am aware of the plants and flowering shrubs  that did not survive the bitter cold winter.   Today I made ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Aerated: Late Spring Lawn Care

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Normally the lawn is my husband’s job but this year it has become my job.  Today when I look out at the lawn I viewed a few green patches, ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Protecting Plants From Late Spring Snow

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When I looked out my window this morning I could not believe my eyes, because the snow was falling onto my newly green lawn and my flower g...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Testing Soil to Determine Right Grass Seed for Lawn

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Before you can grow a lush green lawn I recommend that you know what type of soil you have.  Grass seed is formulated to grow in specific s...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Yard Sale Find Creates an Inexpensive Garden Path

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While shopping at our neighborhood yard sale I found some capstone at a yard sale and then my brother gave me some cypress mulch.  I knew i...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Harsh Winter Causes Damage to Bearded Irises

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Today while cleaning the winter debris from the bearded iris garden I noticed that many of the rhizomes had suffered from erosion due t...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Pruning Japanese Honeysuckle Vines – Early Spring Cleanup

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Today was warm and I worked outdoors cleaning up the river rock wall by pruning the Japanese honeysuckle vines.  Last year the vines had no...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Getting Ready to Plant Organic Spinach Seeds

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Even though it is too cold to plant spinach outdoors I am getting ready to plant Ferry-Morse organic spinach seeds in containers.  I lik...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Protecting Spring Bulb Gardens from Whitetail Deer

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  When I looked out my picture window I saw doe deer and fawn in my yard nibbling in my spring bulb garden.  I ran outside and waved my a...