You know how irritating it can be to hear people preach about low-maintenance gardening – as if we want to spend less time in our gardens? Now, talk to me about low-maintenance lawns, and I’m listening. At this point, I have only one patch of proper lawn-like space, though there’s still plenty of grass to [...]

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It’s still cold here. And we’ve got an unseasonably cool week ahead, and that means I have wait even longer to get my tender seedlings and other heat lovers into the ground. So I’m even more happy about owning what has become an indispensible tool for me in early spring: A pop-up greenhouse.  I set the [...]

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I really meant to join in on the Garden Bloggers’ Hoe Down sponsored by Carol over at May Dreams Gardens last Saturday. Really I did. But [insert list of poor excuses here, because I know all the rest of you are busy gardening too, and yet many of you made the time to participate...]. To be [...]

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You hear a lot of talk these days about getting rid of lawns, and that’s great. What you don’t often hear about is how to actually remove that nasty turf grass without herbicides so you can go about planting more-interesting stuff. Mowing it as low as possible, then smothering it with newspaper or cardboard is [...]

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