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By the end of my work week, I look forward to some time off. No conference calls, no computers. With hands on hips, I’m able to take a moment in the garden to catch my breath. Surveying my vegetable garden, I’m pleased with how well my tomatoes are doing. For some people, . . . → Read More: What Tomatoes Teach Us About Slowing Down  A few minutes after horking down the second s’more my son made, I was feeling definitely queezy. I knew I’d feel fine if I just waited awhile, but instead I hopped up, pinched some spearmint and chocolate mint from the garden, and made myself a soothing mint tea. This is the first year growing my own mint because I’ve always . . . → Read More: How To Eat S’mores And Not Get Burnt I’ve recently had the pleasure of becoming familiar with the Paul Vallee National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat and Monarch butterfly waystation gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Paul’s taken gardening to a grand scale, and has created a true wildlife habitat. For those of you who would like to learn more about attracting butterflies and nature . . . → Read More: Dust on a Butterfly’s Wings Not everyone has a huge or even smallish yard to garden in, but don’t let that stop you. Growing plants, period, is gardening. One great option is planting in containers: You don’t have to suffer with the problem soil everyone else does, and have flexibility in moving your plants around for better growing conditions. I’ve gardened in . . . → Read More: When You Don’t Have a Back Forty I’ve wanted to attract more butterflies to my garden ever since visiting the Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory several years ago. I was enchanted by the Blue Morpho, and although I’ll never see that tropical butterfly in my midwest garden, I knew there were things I could do to attract other species. This and many . . . → Read More: Vanessa Atalanta, She’s Not Who You Think She Is Hey check out my hand painted custom “Pickle Pot”. Seed catalogs and vintage ads can be great inspiration, or polka dot to your heart’s content. To paint your own one (or two) of a kind pots, follow these easy steps: 1. Completely cover the exterior, interior, tops and bottom of a clean, non painted terra-cotta pot with a clear . . . → Read More: Just a Touch of Paint
Every Spring I see these flowers, and just smile. My daughter calls them Horton Hears a Who Flowers. I got these ornamental alliums in a trade for grape hyacinth. The bulbs double in number ever couple of years, and being in the onion family, they’re a great example of plants bunnies and deer leave . . . → Read More: Horton Hears a Who Flowers The Frugal Garden started on June 28th, 2010 on one of the many free blog sites around. Thank you for the five visitors I had. I quickly realized that with the clunky site layout, and zero input into my user’s experience, I wouldn’t be able to accomplish on a free site what I came for; . . . → Read More: Growing the Community Especially in a garden. Since most of what I have I’ve grown from seed, cuttings or divisions of mature plants, I have no qualms about yanking what just isn’t working. Or I try not to. This tangled mess of ornamental grass had been the highlight of my late spring garden, literally stopping people in . . . → Read More: If it’s Not Working, Why Keep it? |
    
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