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For purposes of keeping track of this gardening journey: Moved the blueberry plants to the front and the strawberry plants to the back. Added purchased amendments to make the soil in front more acid and to add nitrogen. Adding....um....liquid nitrogen to the sickly-looking squash and tomatoes...

I agree that veggies growing in the front yard should be perfectly acceptable. (I just moved all my blueberry bushes to the front yard! ;)) But she could have gotten away with so much more had she done edible landscaping instead of utilitarian garden boxes. Not that I'm knocking her choice to...

Thought so.....what did I miss?

ofg, :yuckyuck Starbucks will generally give you a cup of ice water for free - you could have gotten the coffee, asked for a cup of ice (hold the water, please), poured the coffee into the ice, handed the paper cup back, said "thank you" with a big ofg smile, and headed off on your merry way. :)

I wouldn't mind being wealthy enough to retire, but for now things are good. I live in the city so I have to put up with various restrictions and traffic, but my neighbors are wonderful, I'm close to family, my work is intellectually stimulating and pays well enough, and I actually like city...

:gig I'm pretty sure the peach thief wasn't a critter, since there are no pits or partly-eaten bits anywhere to be seen. When the squirrels and fruit rats eat the oranges and pomegranates, they usually leave a lot of evidence behind. This time there was nothing at all. They were just gone...

Yes, I will call them. The lead gardener is a great guy who has been working for us for fourteen years. And thanks to recommendations from us, he does most of the houses on this block. I'm guessing one of his helpers did it without him knowing. But I'm perfectly comfortable telling him that...

I just went out to water the garden and discovered that all the peaches on my little tree are gone but one. Just as they were getting ripe! I think the gardeners must have taken them (the guys who come and mow the lawn), since they are the only ones outside our family who are ever in my...

Ooh, no kidding! I'd better lay low. :hide

I grew up in Los Angeles, but moved to north Texas as a teenager. I was shocked to find out that I was considered a Northerner. "But we're almost on the same parallel," I protested. I didn't understand that there is "south" and "The South," which are two completely different things. (And I...

Ha! You all crack me up. I feel like some sort of criminal sneaking my liquid fertilizer to the backyard. The family isn't exactly on board with this one. And I can't imagine the neighbors would be either. As of now, the plants seem perfectly content with their new fertilizer (meaning I...

Pear cider - yum.

Project Tinkle and Sprinkle begins.... A modified milk carton is now The Pee Pod. If it works, I may just get some veggies out of this year's plot. If not, there's always next year....

What?! I can use my chicken poo as fertilizer. (Of course, that's not to say that CA isn't crazy in its own ways...)

I asked my "consultants" (DD, just turned 14, and cousin, nearly 16) and they had two ideas. First, they thought Sam might like something like we have been planning: DD's birthday was Monday and all her friends were out of town, so we have been planning a "very merry un-birthday party" for...

To keep my birds in I bought a cheap roll of plastic bird netting (like this), wove some cheap bamboo stakes through it about every six feet or so to give it shape, and stuck them in the fence to increase the height of the fence. It keeps the birds in, and it was inexpensive and really easy...

Interesting observations. I'm not necessarily trying to save the planet through my gardening methods -- I just want a garden that doesn't require me to buy things. :lol: My time has value too (literally -- in my professional life my time has a dollar value) and I work full time and then some...

So cute! Thanks for posting it.

Ooh, good info on here, thank you. I forgot that grass clippings have nitrogen (I do use them in the garden, but I haven't put them in that area yet). I have a bat box I need to put up -- free guano and bug control all in one. Now I need to find an opaque container that I can surreptitiously...

I'm trying no-till too, and as the weather heats up I'm wondering how the deep mulch works with watering. It would seem that the soil would stay pretty moist below the mulch, but it also seems that it would be near-impossible to get water down through the mulch if needed. I could always rake...