This post is sponsored by Miracle-Gro and Bonnie Plants. All opinions are my own! 🙂 Ever since I can remember… we have had a garden in our backyard! We loooove gardens! I remember crawling through our black raspberry bushes when I was 6 years old. I would make forts out of and in the black …
I’m so glad the sun is out and the weather is warming up! Miss Dru from Polkadot Poplars is here with us today and I love the project she brought to share… DIY Garden Markers are perfect for keeping your garden happy! Hello! Today I’m sharing a quick and easy garden marker idea that I recently …
I’m so happy to have Miss Dru from Polkadot Poplars here with us today! I love it when she comes to visit- she brings such fun projects to share!! I’m especially in love with this adorable DIY Boxwood Topiary project it’s the perfect way to bring summer into your homes. I won’t keep you waiting …
DIY Fall Flower Pots DIY Fall Flower Pots is part of my fall inspired front porch display. I love flowers but when my spring planted flower pots start looking a little haggard… it’s time to switch them out for a little touch of fall! I don’t like to “really” plant my mums …
How our garden grows I usually try to post about our garden on Monday’s BUT, I was tied up all day long yesterday! So, I hurried and posted my delicious Skinny Pumpkin Bars which were right ready to go and switched gardening to today! As I go about my daily life (which requires …
How our garden grows I hope you’re all enjoying a nice relaxing Labor Day. Me? I was able to sleep in a little bit, mowed the lawn, and then we put on a BBQ! We harvested a lot of produce from the garden for our BBQ so, I wanted to share some photo’s with …
How our garden grows #14 It’s pretty much a jungle out there… this garden of ours! We’re well into the harvesting stage of our garden- we’ve enjoyed 3 different onions, carrots, spinach, chard, 6 varieties of lettuce, beets, turnips, radishes, red potatoes, purple potatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, peppers, corn, cantaloupe, eggplant, canary melons, …
How our garden grows AND A Beet Smoothie Our garden is off and running pretty much on it’s own now- SO, we’re at the harvesting stage for a lot of our produce! Which is just the yummiest part!! 🙂 I must admit I was a little surprised at how many BEETS showed up …
How our garden grows Week 11 You’ll be surprised how much our little garden has grown over the past couple of weeks!! It’s really taken off- so we want to give you a tour 🙂 The first picture is of our summer squash plants and some cute sunflowers! The sunflowers are supposed to grow …
How our garden grows Week 10 So, we finally completed our new Raspberry Bed and Pathway– just in time for hosting my friend’s wedding last Saturday 🙂 In How our garden grows… (week 8) we walked you through how to build a raised garden bed! And in this post we’ll show you how we …
How our garden grows Week 9 First off we wanted to show you how to get double the growth out of your spinach plants… as the plants grow you’ll want to pick the largest leaves first! Ruthie with lotsa spinach… Now that our spinach has gotten to the point that its about ready …
How our garden grows Week 8 We’ve wanted raspberries for well over 2 years now and we just hadn’t gotten around to getting it done… sad because we could be enjoying them this year!! BUT, finally this is the year! We took lots of pictures so we could show ya how to do …
Perennials and Bushes First off lets get into Perennials and I for one am a firm believer in buying as many plants as I can that will come back again, other wise known as Perennials! The most important rule in any gardening is “Read the tag” and believe what it tells you! Seriously!! If a …
How our garden grows Week 7 This week wanted to show you how we plant our corn and talk a little about “The 3 sister’s technique”… Plus, we’ll throw in a few snap shots of our garden beds so you can see how our gardens growing 🙂 To start corn from seed it’s …
How our garden grows Week 6 Our garden is mostly planted and off to a fabulous start! We want to share a few planting tips with you, show you how to trellis tomatoes, and let ya have a look at how our garden is growing 🙂 We talked about “hardening off” your …
DIY flower pots with this 3 day weekend upon us, I thought it’d be fun to show you some of my flower pots and give ya a few tips on how to build your own! The pots that sit in the front of our house are pretty much always in the shade except for a …
How our garden grows Week 5 This past week we’ve been working on getting our watering system up and running AND also making some Vegetable Trellises for some of our plants to grow on! We’ll show how we made each of these this week 🙂 Watering System: In our area we have secondary water …
How our garden grows Week 4 We’ve been working on transplanting and “hardening off” our little seedlings so they’ll be ready to plant… we’ve been at it for a couple of weeks SO, today we’re gonna show you how it’s done!! Transplanting: Once the seeds sprout and begin to grow under the lights, …
How our garden grows Week 3 This week we’re going to talk about the gardening methods we use and a little about planning a garden… The gardening methods we use: We use a combination of Mittleider method and the Square Foot method: Mittleider Method: is an intensive gardening method that eliminates all …
How our garden grows Week 2 This week we’re going to talk about getting our little seeds started… We bought a seed starter tray that comes with a humidity dome and drain tray PLUS a heat pad on Amazon for a super good price! Hydrofarm CK64050 Germination Station with heat pad We …
How our garden grows is my NEW Monday post on our little garden! Week 1 Our garden DOESN’T grow with silver bells and cockle shells… Nope. It’s more like sweat and blisters! BUT, oh. my. word! The taste of fresh tomatoes makes up for the whole little pain in the rear it is sometimes 🙂 …