Dirt Cheap Garden Ideas Not everyone can afford a bath size water garden kit, but what about using an old tub that was cast off from a remodeling project? What about old teacups turned into bird feeders? Or signs made out of old lumber, or the … [Read more...] about Moneysaving Tips for Gardeners
Frugal Tips
Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape
What if you could see which shrubs and trees grow well in your landscape? Or learn of plants mature sizes without waiting for years? An Arboretum can show and tell. What Is An Arboretum? An Arboretum is a place where trees are grown, but not only … [Read more...] about Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape
More Than Pretty
It's true, and that was something I wrote about in these garden thoughts. But pretty can make some of life's all too real tragedy bearable. It is that fine balance, really, that the making of art revolves around. There is a time for photo … [Read more...] about More Than Pretty
Wall Street Guru Gives Gardening Advice
Swiss Chard Not Swiss BanksThere is an awful lot of speculation about the economy and where the financial shape of the world (and our future) is going and proffered advice on how we can protect ourselves from hard times. Jim Rogers, Well Known … [Read more...] about Wall Street Guru Gives Gardening Advice
If you would like to follow more of my adventures…
Sometimes too many blogs in the fire are too much of a good thing, I know... for reading and writing. However (you knew that was coming, right?) I had decided to break up the topics that I write on into separate blogs some time ago (before blogging, … [Read more...] about If you would like to follow more of my adventures…
Gardening, Greening, and Saving Society
Survivor, America is a financial oriented article/video from Yahoo Finance, today. It centers around a point of view that many of us have become familiar with- but I wanted to look at it from the Gardener's perspective.In short, Gerald Celente, … [Read more...] about Gardening, Greening, and Saving Society
Eye on the Future: growing our food
Article on what you might expect from planning a small market garden offers up this advice: II. Creating Your Own Successful Market Garden How do you prepare? 1. START SMALL! Don't plant more than you can … [Read more...] about Eye on the Future: growing our food
Chickens in the City Controversy
Chickens vs Property Values.What ever happened to common sense? Regulatory powers and the thinking of martinets combine to make mountains out of molehills. Why not just apply the common sense rules that already apply to animals in an urban … [Read more...] about Chickens in the City Controversy
Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This
This video is for anyone who is interested in saving seeds, particularly tomato seeds, but it is most especially for my husband. Handyman has been very interested in Survival blogs and their know how... and ( happily for me) has voiced interest in … [Read more...] about Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This
The Gardening Bubble
You've heard of the real estate bubble, and talk of other bubbles as well, but we gardeners have our own forms of the dreaded "bubble". Remember history's "Tulipomania"? Yep, everyone had to have tulips, the latest and rarest one, and a bubble was … [Read more...] about The Gardening Bubble
