home, garden, food, and prairie lifestyle
Every gardener faces a big dilemma every summer: How do you water your garden and keep it alive when you’re on holidays?
I’m sharing my five basic steps for plant care on vacation. These tips should keep your plants alive for a max of 3 days without rain and moderate temperatures. I’ll also give you suggestions for what to do if you’re gone for longer.
Have you always wondered what flowers keep bugs away from the vegetables in your garden? Today we’re talking about companion planting flowers and vegetables, and which flowers can keep the bugs at bay in your garden naturally.
Wow, what an incredibly busy 6 weeks this Yard Transformation Challenge has been. Thanks again to Nat of Simple Family Crazy Life for hosting the challenge and giving me some extra motivation to whip my yard into shape.
Let’s start with the backyard, and work our way to the front. Come on in. . .
May Long Weekend (or the unofficial Gardening-Weekend-in-Canada as I like to call it) has come and gone and my garden is in the ground! This week was extremely busy as I hustled to get my garden in, mow and fertilize the lawn, and cut down the overgrown nuisance trees in the yard.
Thanks again to Nat of Simple Family Crazy Life for heading up the challenge. Click here to see the other bloggers progress.
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While the largest chunk of my yard work is done, there’s still much to do! Our fence-of-shame still needs fixing and I still have that side of the flower beds to weed through. I want to order more mulch and add it around the flower beds so I don’t have to weed so much.
Here’s a little tour I did recently on Facebook:
I do a live video almost every Tuesday at 10am CST, so like and follow my Facebook page for tours, Q & A and quick garden tips.
I’m seriously in love with my new vinyl raised beds in the front yard. They look so good and make me smile every time I see them. You can read more about my experience here.
I also can’t believe that I fit every single flower and vegetable that I wanted to plant into my garden space. If you haven’t tried square foot gardening and you garden in a small space, you really need to give it a try. I’ll be following up later in the year with how all my experiments with this technique turned out.
Start your square foot garden the easy way!
You'll get 4 4x4 plans for
Plus a short 3 day email course of how to get started with square foot gardening.
Wondering about the upside down tomato cages? I’m starting a new garden space and I laid cardboard down in order to kill the grass. Unfortunately, the tomato cages can’t pierce through that ground. Wish me luck!
Even though my garden is nowhere near perfect, I’m in awe of the transformation over the last three years. We started with a rundown mess of a yard, and are slowly but surely making it our own.
That’s it for this week! Next week I hope to take some glamorous pictures of the yard and share the final results with you.
Have you ever conquered an overgrown mess of a yard? Tell me all about it! (Please, I need to feel like I’m not the only one!!)
Start your square foot garden the easy way!
You'll get 4 4x4 plans for
Plus a short 3 day email course of how to get started with square foot gardening.
Things are starting to take shape in my backyard and I couldn’t be more excited! Come and see this week’s progress in week 3 of the 6 week yard transformation, hosted by Nat of Simple Life Crazy Family.