Permaculture Gardener, Soil Health Grower and Light Farmer
Raising Native Plants, Flowers, Fruits and Veggies in My Yard at the Jersey Shore.
I haven’t run out of steam yet. There is so much to do out there! It’s taken some time for me to get these beds dug out, but since it’s been raining here a lot lately, the ground is nice and soft and much easier to dig. These beds might look sparse and kind of …
The grass wasn’t doing all that well anyway. 🙂 I’ve begun to dig beds for the many perennials and bulbs I’ve been collecting in the last couple of weeks. I’ve had a chance to dig some of the plants in where I imagine they will stay for some time. Moved the Mums, the cranberry and …
I gardened my butt off today. Dug a new bed around the mailbox and moved some mums that didn’t belong where I had them before. I moved the no-bog northern cranberry to the bottom right of this picture and a couple of new low perennials to bottom left. I’ll check the tags and update the …
I’m pretty new at this, have I said that before? Last year I used some miracle grow granular plant food around my foundation gardens and that’s as far as I got – but this year I really wanted to try staying away from the chemical products. I’ve got my compost bins going, but I wanted …
Memorial Day Weekend is the official start of summer here at the Jersey Shore. The weather stood up and took notice this weekend too, we had some rain this week but today was a beach day for sure. I took some pictures on the 28th and then a few more today of the flowers and …
I made a few changes from the original front yard garden plan when I finally finished digging and planting the seeds today. It took longer than I had hoped because I injured my back last week, but I’m feeling whole again and since I discovered the glory of FREE compost from my municipal recycling center, …
Three years ago I bought some foundation gardens from http://springhillnursery.com One was a shade garden (which is now in full sun and some of it is being moved around) and the other was a beautiful corner garden which I adapted to the space under my living room picture window. The Stella De Oro Day Lilies …
