Lazy Gardening

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

The confusion among cumin, black cumin, black seed, kala jeera and kalijiri is a great example of why we should use botanical names, not com...

Ewwwww ... My Blog EXPLODED!!!  EXPLODE!!!! , in boldface with multiple exclamation points, is a word commonly used by those on the shady...

If you are remodeling, you might have wall, floor or fireplace tiles worth salvaging for resale or to re-use in the new version of the hou...

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...

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

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...