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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics, using garden tools

A Basic Guide To Essential Garden Tools For Beginners

Tagged With: beginning gardening, expert gardening tips, gardening tools, spade, trowel

What, When, How To Use Garden Tools Just starting out as a new homeowner? Get the garden tools you need. Tips on which essentials a newbie gardener should buy. Hint: if it decorates a wall, you aren't using it. | What Essential Tools Do I Need … [Read more...] about A Basic Guide To Essential Garden Tools For Beginners

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics, Pruning Your Plants, using garden tools

Late Winter Is Time To Prune

Tagged With: how to prune, pruners, pruning, secateurs

Best Time To Prune Visualizing how to cut tree branches If we get a break in the weather (which we will, eventually), it will be ideal time to get the pruning tools out and clean up winter damage, trim out fruit trees, and cut … [Read more...] about Late Winter Is Time To Prune

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Featured, garden basics, gardening tips, using garden tools

The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List

Tagged With: best tools, Featured, garden tools, lists

The Bare Essentials Some essentials when brand new I've done a lot of tweeting and writing about weeding this season. There are a couple of reasons for that including the unusually wonderful weather (from my perspective, anyway), … [Read more...] about The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Garden Stories and Memories, using garden tools, weeding

News In A Nutshell

Tagged With: rural life

The corn as it tasseled in late July We are finally getting summer season weather- at the final ending days of August . Not that I'm complaining, because I thought all those pseudo June days were simply glorious. But I'm not getting much … [Read more...] about News In A Nutshell

chinquapin leaves and acorns

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden chores, using garden tools

Fall Garden Cleanup

Tagged With: daffodil bulbs, declutter, decluttering, fall garden chores, leaf vacuum

Using The Leaf Vacuum This past week we did quite a bit of garden cleanup to make good use of the nice weather. The leaf vacuum works, but it is heavy and on our somewhat rough (but flat) ground it still had to be pulled backwards. Quicker and … [Read more...] about Fall Garden Cleanup

raking leaves

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: autumn, using garden tools

My Leaf Vacuum/Chipper

Tagged With: fall leaves, garden maintenance, leaf vacuum, raking leaves

Yippeeee! I finally got it! My husband bought my long awaited leaf vacuum chipper machine! YAY! I don't know how we will pay for it and today I do not care. I am so excited to use it and make much mulch for my garden. He looked it up online, it … [Read more...] about My Leaf Vacuum/Chipper

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I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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