Lazy Gardening

 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...

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 ...

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...

Where's the Grass-rogaine? The buffalo grass is prone to develop bare spots, at least in this area with the watering schedule I k...

Adding Amendments Buffalo grass does not need or tolerate much fertilizer. Mine was last fertilized when we planted the plugs in ...

De-thatching the lawn It's time for a makeover and spa week for the lawn. Five years after planting, some bald patches had d...