We discovered this past spring that we had an armadillo problem around the farm and we were determined to find out how to get rid of them. Each evening, Annabelle and Ranger would bark and bark and ...
Garden
Staking Tomatoes
Staking tomatoes provides support for the tomato plant while allowing easy access to tomatoes as they grow. Our container gardens are still doing great. Each morning, I walk out to check on them ...
Container Gardening Update!
Last week, I shared about our updated approach to container gardening at my house. We're using large galvanized troughs that we've placed on our back porch. I had emails asking me to please keep ...
Container Gardening
Container Gardening makes for an efficient method of vegetable, herb and flower gardening. You can create as big or as small of an area for your container gardens as you'd like or have the space to ...
My Fall Herb Garden {Porch Style}
Herbs are one of my favorite things to grow throughout the year. I love to be able to quickly snip off pieces of thyme, parsley, oregano or rosemary to use in a recipe to enhance the flavor ...
Vertical Succulent Gardens {Mingle Monday 6/25}
Vertical gardens are popping up all over the place in magazines, online, television, and even around my local plant nurseries - especially with succulents. There are even boards dedicated to ...
Hydrangea Lovin’ {Mingle Monday}
My Grandmother always had the most beautiful hydrangea bushes near her porch. As I would run past on my way to her door, blue snowflakes would seem to fall from the heavy globes forming a ...
Autumn Fern
I've been dressing up my porches again trying to get them ready for fall. My boxwood basil, having withered to just a few shoots of green, was way past its prime for adding ...
How to Keep Onions
My nephew's football team was selling 25 pound bags of Vidalia onions a few weeks ago as a fund raiser for their team. Of course I snapped them up, thinking of all the delicious dishes I could make ...
How to Make Your Own Seedling Pots
Making your own seedling pots is a great afternoon activity for the entire family and a wonderful way to get children excited about gardening. With a stack of newspapers, a can or water ...
A Back Porch Herb Garden
I absolutely love cooking with fresh herbs - they enhance the flavors of an otherwise ordinary and even bland tasting dish and make it shine. Before we moved to the "farm" as we like to call ...
What To Do With All These Pears
Our pear trees are heavy with pears. I need to take time to go and pick them soon before the deer, bugs and yellow jackets eat them all. I'm not exactly sure what kind of pear they are even. I just ...
Red Geraniums
This week I have most definitely been loving my porches and red geraniums.This post is part of:I'm Lovin' itSweet Shot Tuesday ...