Lazy Gardening

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...

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...

Enough of construction and problem solving!  I have flowers to brag about ... Russian sage, hollyhocks, penstemons and g aillardia blooming ...

Just a quick update on establishing the buffalo and blue grama lawn. It looked like this in early February, right after I spread the jute me...

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 ...

This is another " Oops, should have thought a bit longer " post. I realized too late that there was a slower but less work way to ...

Instead of waiting until nights are reliably above 60 before seeding, I'm pretending that the grass seed is in Kansas and experiencing a...

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...

We had heat-tolerant buffalo grass in Phoenix and loved the low maintenance and toughness of it.  The landscape plan in New Mexico includes...

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

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...

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...

We moved the camera and got a better head shot. The ears do not look large enough to be a Kit fox, so we'll call it a grey fox.  The des...

I don't know, but they are pooping in my garden.  We were curious about the source of non-feline feces repeatedly appearing in the side ...