All Frosting, No Cake
I tried to figure out what I liked about my favorite gardens (Japanese Tea Garden, Golden Gate Park and Butchart Gardens, BC). Both gardens use shrubs wisely. Flowers are masses of the same color and…
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What a Marvelous Idea Using Spray Paint.
The strange looking machine turned out to be a Kubota. A digger of dirt. A big boy's toy.Jim had already outlined the two ponds and the stream with orange fluorescent spray paint. What a marvelous id…
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Raised Beds and Shorter Rows
I an now positioning my beds so I can use a tent type cover of plastic for a year round garden. I do not have to heat it in the winter, in Michigan. I have a small htg stove in case, but it stays war…
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Yard Sharing
Asked a few friends to enjoy it without me! "DIt was really hard to leave for the contract but I needed the money. It was a few weeks before harvest. Those friends were very happy for the surprise an…
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Learn Which Plants Grow Where
After I lost a bunch of good plants, I started focusing on trying less expensive species plants (instead of cultivars) in the tougher spots and doing my best to propagate plants that were doing well …
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Limit Colors and Increase What You Have.
Gave away the prolific gold and orange daylilies to limit my color scheme to blues and pinks. Gradually dug out forsythia that grew from suckers into huge tangles. I like the yellow blooms, and the p…
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Converted Vegetable Garden to Raised Beds with Great Soil
Still fixing - green manure over winter, neighbor's horse ****, although I'm "basically" organic, I use petro-fertilizer (long acting, lower acid, ...) to pump up production of the green manure crop …
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No Prima Donas and No Garden Thugs
I started editing. I realized that I couldn’t let everything that seeded itself grow and I couldn’t buy every plant I saw. I still try new plants every year, but I give away the plants th…
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