Lazy Gardening

It's Flat and It's Freezing. Are they Frozen? First there was this. Snow I should have prepared for, but didn't, flattened my fr...

It Finally Begins to Biodegrade Almost 2 years ago, I covered the front yard with jute mesh to keep the grass seeds from blowing away or...

Engineering Failure: Will the Plants Survive? We had several inches of snow overnight in late December. Light fluffy powder snow that squ...

Garden Science The leafy greens in the raised bed are thriving under the frost cloth tent. They've been planted out about a month and...

The best version yet! My first version of a frost cover support for winter vegetables was cobbled together in a hurry from available mat...

All It Takes Is Patience, Herbicide (optional) and a Shovel Black locust, ( Robinia pseudoacacia ),  Tree of Heaven , (Ailanthus altissim...

Just a short post - proving that less is more. If you mow less often, you have more bees. The USDA Forest Service and some partner researche...

Just a quick post. If you have a lot of fall bulbs to plant, use a drill with a "spade" bit that is about half an inch wider than ...

You have probably encountered tarantula hawks on click-bait websites in a list of "most painful stings", "most bad-ass",...

Along with three inches of rain in two weeks we had a few short hail showers.  The rain was welcome. The hail was not excessive, but the dam...