Lazy Gardening

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

A meadow is grass with wildflowers ...and I have it!  At least in parts of the lawn, if you squint just right, I have fluffy clumps of grass...

Herbicides are chemicals used to control unwanted plants. All conventional or "organic" herbicides work by somehow interfering w...

Protective Gear for Desert Gardeners  I knew there was a drawback to desert landscaping. I can't participate in World Naked Gardening ...

Your first thought about your house's curb appeal should not be what color to paint the front door, where to hang hand-crafted wreaths, ...

Lawn Upholstering?  Jute erosion control mesh is not burlap - it's a fabric woven with extremely coarse yarn and large holes.  The mes...

No matter how great the interior of your house may be, first you have to convince buyers that it's worth it to get out of the car and in...

Any system that puts Phoenix, Arizona and Orlando, Florida together has a serious flaw.  But they are both USDA Hardiness Zone 10. "U...

We joke that the the classiest house in the Phoenix area looks like a low-class Victorian washerwoman's house when a freeze is coming, b...

For Occasional Use by a Lazy Gardener I seldom use fertilizers, but if I have to, I use the simplest ones that will do the job.  I am relu...

I was coming in from the laundry room before sunrise one June morning and in what little light there was, I saw something moving down a mesq...

Flame Throwers and Weed Burners Weed burners or flamers are blowtorches adapted to deliver flames to ground level.  They do not have to bu...

It's not the weeds you see that are the problem, it's the ones hiding in the dirt, waiting to grow. Weeds in Rye By Agronom (O...

The common method of securing landscape timbers is to pound a 12-inch chunk of 3/8 rebar through a hole drilled in the wood into the dirt un...

In its proper place, Bermuda grass ( Cynodon dactylon ) makes a good lawn or good pasture. Unfortunately it doesn't stay in its proper p...

 It's Fluffy!  It's Green! I came back after a summer's absence to find that the lawn had not missed my care.  This is  what d...

We needed shade for the west wall of the house to keep the electric bills down, so we built an arbor. Then came the discussion of what to gr...

When Yahoo!  (aka Associated Content)  shut down its article publishing, they returned rights to the authors. I'll be reposting the re...

Another Experiment This is a total experiment ... I over-seeded the buffalo grass with another low-care native grass from t...

The Verdins Built It Where? Verdins (Auriparus flaviceps ) are tiny yellow-headed birds that flit around the desert eating bugs. They are...