Waltham Butternut Squash Seeds

SHOPPING TIP: Oh, my gosh, earlier today, I scored one packet (1.0 gram) of Waltham butternut squash seeds at the 99 Cents Only Store for the princely sum of 11 cents! I will be planting them within the hour in three separate containers. Yay!

Tomato Container Garden

This weekend, I’m heading to a home improvement store to get a few bags of potting soil. From previous experience, each 2-cubic foot bag provides enough soil to fill six 5-gallon containers, a few more if I filled the containers less abundantly. I saved up several of these containers over the years, but may need [...]

Gardening Tools Replaced

Eventually, gardening tools need to be replaced. Today was that day for me. I purchased a new lopper, to trim some overhanging thin branches. It’s a bit of an upgrade also since the handles can extend up to 27 inches and lock in place, a bonus since I’m short!  The one I had previously was on [...]

Weeds: Treatment with Roundup Super Concentrate

I bought Roundup Super Concentrate a few weekends ago and tried to use it last week. The instructions indicate to combine a small amount of the concentrated weed killer with one gallon of water. What could go wrong with that?
Well, I thought, Hey, I have an empty 1-gallon water container. Why not load that up [...]

Apple and Pear Saplings, 3-in-1

I went to a local gardening center and on the clearance rack were various fruit tree saplings, among other trees. What caught my eye were 2 types of fruits trees, apple and pear. Both are identified as 3-in-one, meaning that each sapling had grafted onto it 3 varieties of apples or pears, and self-fertile, meaning [...]

Four New Roses and Fuchsia Plant!

I just returned from a very successful trip from Lowe’s! I went to their gardening clearance rack and found four new rose plants, pictured from left to right: (1) an unknown dark pink, very fragrant hybrid tea, (2) Spartan floribunda – orange red rose, (3) Just Joey hybrid tea – orange rose, and (4) Proud [...]

Container Gardening: Be Good to Your Back!

I’m almost done with my autumn garden clean-up duties. I’ll still need to remove a few remaining defunct tomato plants from their large containers to make way for planting vegetable seeds. Because of some back problems, it’s occasionally difficult for me to dig directly into the garden soil, whether to make a hole to place a new plant, [...]

Tree Bark Lawn Looking Good!

Although I’ve only had it for about three weeks, I’m really loving my tree bark lawn! The brown and yellow colors of the shredded bark (specifically, the product is pathway bark) has been a nice match for the bold, bright colors of my flower garden. I’m also considering adding a tree bark lawn to another [...]

Roses on My Mind!

The roses I’ve selected for my informal rose garden were often the happy result of choice and chance. Sometimes I’d look for a specific rose, like the white iceberg rose, a floribunda. Although a very popular selection in many gardens across this country, it’s simply beautiful and very productive and is a great mate for many non-rose [...]

Tomatoes Grown in Containers

Believe it or not, these are just 2 individual tomato plants grown from seed in large (perhaps 22 gallon) plastic pots. The one on the left is Speckled Roman tomato (oblong-shaped orange-colored fruit with yellow streaks) and an unknown tomato from last season. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but the fruit is deep [...]