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...

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...

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...

By the time honeybees get their lazy striped butts out of the hive and start their daily commute to my garden, squash bees have been at work...

This turned into an accidental demonstration of what micro-micro-climates are.  A micro-micro is a nano ... so maybe I'm showing nano-c...

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

My composting method consists of tossing stuff into a wire bin and letting it decompose on its own schedule.  Because of the dry climate, t...

The mortality rate of seeds that I plant directly into the garden is high. I blame it on the arid climate, because it is difficult to keep t...

They sprouted!  Now what?  Unless you want the seedlings to die from lack of space for their roots, you have to do something with them.  You...

Collect your trays for the soil blocks.  I use salvaged  clear plastic containers that salad greens or pastries are sold in. I also use smal...

Soil blocks - just a cube of compressed dirt - have advantages for gardeners who grow their vegetables and flowers from seed. 40 lettuce ...

The first raised bed was done in a hurry because it was already October and I needed to get something finished for winter vegetables.  It wa...

I sometimes start seeds in expanding starter pots. The most widely available brand is Park Seed Company "Jiffy-7" pots. The Jiffy...

I know what date I took a picture, because the camera dates them for me, but when did I plant those things? That's why I need to start ...

Many seeds require a warmer soil temperature for germination than the seedling needs to grow after germination.  This ensures that the see...

The experiment - I'm exploring the possibility of starting leafy greens in late fall and "storing" them in the garden under ...

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...

There is something deeply satisfying about grabbing a fistful of weeds and yanking them out, roots and all. However, you have to make sure...