My sister-in-law recently brought over some Rhubarb for me from her garden, and I’ve just been dying to use it. Then… Our local grocery store had strawberries on sale, which meant a match made in heaven
Archives for June 2012
Changing things up in my Garden
I’m not sure if I mentioned or not. But after my husband built my box garden – he used the leftovers to make a smaller standing box garden. We figured we could use this for flowers, or whatever else I wanted. Well… That’s a little off topic, but a good piece of background information for what I’m about to talk… Read More
Lipton Tea & Honey | Giveaway!
I (finally) recently started telling you about our gardening adventures that started back in March, so I wanted to share a bit about our favorite go-to drinks for when we need to stay hydrated and refreshed! We’ve been drinking a TON of tea when we work outside, but the same tea flavor gets boring after a while, so I was… Read More
Beware of Crappy Contractors.
Isn’t this deck only 4 1/2 months old??? Why Yes…. Yes it is… And I’m trying to get them to fix it…. But clearly they’re avoiding me. So first, the guy talks to me about how great his company is, etc etc… I checked his references – and we had a good overall beginning with him. We even chatted about… Read More
Oh the Dirty Details of a Garden…
One of my husbands main concerns with building a box garden was how he was possibly going to mow around the thing!! He thought it would just be one of those pain-in-the-rear things that he’d constantly have to be weed-whipping. Our original plans for the side of the garden toward the fence was to put down some weed prevention tarp… Read More
