Garden's are AMAZING
I often say "Garden Therapy" keeps me sane! There are so many different ways to garden and I dabble in all of them. Check out these awesome pages to get to the type of "garden adventure" you want to know more about! Drop me a note in the comments on any post that is helpful!
Traditional Gardening
This type of garden is in my heritage. My grandmother never heard of square foot gardening. Many of the things I do are "traditional" but in the last couple of years we've been applying Ruth Stout's method of applying deep mulch to the garden and NOT tilling.
Garden adventures are never simple but they can yield awesome results!
Square Foot Gardens
Do you like the planned contained method of square foot gardening? Me too! It's a joy to keep the weeds at bay and garden in a smaller type space!
We also put our strawberries in square foot gardens and that has worked amazingly well!
Flower Gardens
Nothing gives me greater joy than the flowers growing in my unruly beds and pots. They are gifts from God that make me smile.
Learn how I am a lazy gardener who LOVES perennials and wild flowers that need little care from me!
My grandmother and mother are probably shaking their heads in heaven at my garden. I've broke the traditional garden rules in the past few years and I want to share why you should put a layer of mulch on your gardens this fall instead of turning the soil over before putting it to bed for the year. (Be sure to check out my Garden Ideas page for all our garden adventures)
I think that ORANGE is the color that I associate most with fall. Pumpkins and beautiful trees that turn flaming orange are my favorite orange things of autumn. This year we had an amazing pumpkin plant that climbed the fence and hung it's fruit 4 feet in the air!!!
I've always wanted a berry patch. Strawberries aren't too bad to purchase but others can cost an arm and a leg! We've had vegetables gardens and flower gardens but never a berry patch. In our current home we've had the fun adventure of creating a patch that has given us good return! Not quite where we don't need to buy any berries but that is my ultimate goal! We are 3 years in to this adventures and I want to share our tips for growing raspberries learned from our good and bad experiences.
This year I had major physical challenges and planning problems to overcome and looking back I can see several reasons why my garden was a failure this year.
I think it is super important to evaluate what went right and what didn’t work each year. I want to record the problems and what I will do differently in the future.
Everything is blooming in my flower garden! I LOVE the variety and beauty.
Planting flowers is one of my joys.
Gardening is great therapy and I try to get out there every day in the spring and summer. Here's what's blooming right now!
It’s almost June! We survived graduation of our third child last weekend and I’m still trying to figure out if it is an ending or a beginning. Transitions are such a challenge but I am pretty sure what is around the corner is AWESOME!!
After sharing tons of strawberry plants a few weeks ago I am happy to say that the remaining plants are rewarding us despite the neglect that we gave them last fall. My plants are loaded and we are happily going out to pick each day!
I just finished giving away over 200 strawberry plants. Seriously.
Last year we planted 2 raised beds for strawberries in our “berry patch.” We put around 25 plants in each bed. Then we pretty much ignored them all summer and fall.
One of the best things about spring is getting to be outside more.
That means I can do two of my favorite things.
- Be in the sunshine
- See nature wake up from the winter sleeping.
Our family eats a lot of berries in a year. Smoothies, yogurt with berries, berries with brownies and whip cream, strawberry shortcake, sugar free strawberry jam. And that doesn’t count the plain ones eaten as a snack or for breakfast.
Mainly we eat TONS of strawberries but we love blueberries and raspberries as well. So last year our big spring garden project was building square foot garden strawberry beds.
March and early April are hard on me! We see more sunshine! The temperatures are going up and I’m ready to be outside! But it still frosts and is cold enough for layers in the mornings!
The grass is turning green and the trees are all in bloom so spring is HERE!
I’m super excited to be thinking of seeds, planting and just being out in the fresh air. We've mowed already and I'm anxiously awaiting the apple trees blooming!
Gardening is wonderful therapy for me.
Every time I drive in and out of my drive way I look at all the leaves covering the grass. I feel both frustration and anticipation as I think about being ready to plant my garden in the spring.
I can’t WAIT to get outside this spring! AND Oh there is so much to do out there!
Spring work anticipation
My mother-in-law always says she hates spring. I've never agreed with her but I can understand her perspective this year. There’s just too much to do and its easy to feel overwhelmed.
HOT temperatures of July and August finally dried up the soggy ground. Harvest is coming soon! I cannot believe how amazing my tomato plants look!
The excitement of spring and planting the seeds and seedlings is over. We are in the long haul of August and the summer garden. I won’t kid you. It’s NOT easy to do a garden in the late summer.
It’s hot. The bugs seem to be winning. The weeds have not given up the war. But I am winning against the weeds in the garden!
Seeing the produce on the plants in the garden keeps my motivation going for just a little longer.