Lazy Gardening

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...

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...

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

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...