Bulb Barriers

Bulb Barriers: "Bulb Barriers
Protect your bulbs

BY: Meleah Maynard

Don’t let squirrels and other critters destroy your newly planted bulbs! Try these 5 easy tips to keep bulbs safe and protected.
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The Garden Swap

The Garden Swap

My oldest GD brought her new puppy to visit this weekend. Meet Nike:

The Garden Swap

The Garden Swap

 

View our butterfly slide show. It's more than just butterflies and watch for the surprise at the end.

The Garden Swap

Organizing Garden Tools with PVC

Another DIY project worth looking into

I love the "Keeping it Real" posts that fellow bloggers post. We all know that we share the best photographs and that often the other side of a room is a disaster. I will be showing to you the disaster that I spent the Memorial Day weekend rectifying. That would be the tool shed. It was embarrassingly disorganized and non-functional. But thanks to bloggy inspiration, today it is not! 

Ashbee Design: Organizing Garden Tools with PVC

Square Foot Gardening Templates | Chiot's Run

This is a great idea for spacing plants.

I use the Square Foot Gardening method in my raised beds. Which basically means that I break my raised beds down into square foot sections for planting.

Square Foot Gardening Templates | Chiot's Run

Cucumber, Serpent

64 days. Long, slim, green fruits sometimes reach a length of 4' and coil into realistic snake-like shapes. They're very mild in taste and many people who can't eat cukes can eat this one -- doesn't belong to the cucumber family and no...
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Japanese Climber

Cucumber, Japanese Climber

If you don't have much garden space -- but you do have a fence -- this is the cucumber for you! It has vigorous, healthy vines that throw out strong tendrils, enabling them to climb trellis, wire netting or any suitable support. This is a black-spine...
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Crownvetch

Lovely pink/white blooms to beautify slopes and problem areas from June through September. To cover steep slopes, poor soil trouble areas, stream or pond banks where erosion control is needed, there's no better and prettier ground cover to use than H
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Homemade Pickles

Cucumber, Homemade Pickles

Selected for home gardening and pickling -- not for factory processing. This new variety has loads of pickles that have a solid, crisp interior -- just the thing for the best crispy, crunchy pickles you've ever tasted. Excellent disease resistance. M...

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Ice Plant, Purple

One of the finest drought-resistant ground covers available. Succulent foliage reaches only 3" high and has daisy-like 2" flowers that are a wonderful shade of rosy-purple. Purple Ice Plants begin to bloom in early to mid-summer and continue to
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