The official start of Spring is just a few weeks away and as the weather warms and spring fever strikes your soul, think about stepping into the gardening season with strawberries. Strawberries are adorable because they are so adaptable and can be grown in almost any climate. This is one great quality, but do you …
Continue reading Step Into Spring With Strawberries – A Growing Guide For The Intermountain West
I really can't figure out which is my favorite month of the garden. I Iove April because of all the wonderful plant awakenings (beautiful foliage everywhere) and the TULIPS! But now that it is May, I love the BIG blooms of peonies and irises, the constant supply of greens and the happy promises of so much …
Continue reading The May Garden Means Bodacious Blooms, Tasty Greens And So Much More…
A clever acronym for enjoying the long wonderful days of Fall? Not really, it stands for Raspberries, Sunflowers and Tomatoes - these are the beauties that have been attracting my eye and demanding my attention. My fall bearing raspberries are in high GDP mode. It seems the more I pick, the more there are! I …
Oh my, August can be a hot one! And when the air as far as you can see is filled with smoke from wildfires, it makes you feel even warmer! What to do, what to do? Try to play it cool, of course! One way to play it cool (mentally and physically) is to take …
Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day to Everyone! Thanks for stopping by and special thanks to Carol at May Dreams for hosting this garden meme where gardeners from around the world post what is blooming in their garden on the 15th of each month. Thanks Carol! The bigger blooms in my garden are just starting to boom! Irises and …
February is here and I'm getting excited as my seeds arrive, the 2012 growing season is about to begin. Fresh 'green goods' from my garden no longer seem like a pipe dream as I look out onto the bland back yard. I'm imagining how wonderful they will look and taste in just a another couple …
Fall is glorious! The weather is at its finest in most places across our country and the garden changes into a new palette of colorful beauty. I have always been a die-hard fan of summer but over the last several years I must admit a great growing affection for Fall. There's a chance that someday …
A series on the Fall garden could never be complete without mentioning ever-bearing raspberries. My raspberries have become RICH... in color, taste and volume and it's been amazing. I have three raspberry bushes (Varieties: 'Heritage', 'Amity' and 'Summit') and this is the second year in my garden so the first real year of production. But …
It's that time of year when all things scary, mysterious and morbid get to take center stage for an evening of haunted delight. The days are cooling and we are turning our attention to all things orange and black and our taste buds are particularly attuned to flavors of fall...pumpkin, apple, cinnamon... so is anybody …
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