It’s easy! And this site is really simple to use – you don’t need any special computer skills. The main criteria would be 1) a love for gardening and 2) having something to say.

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Yesterday we had a visit from someone we like very much.  She brought her mother to tour our garden (we get that a lot).  During the course of the tour, our friend said that she didn’t have much of a “green thumb”. Dutch: groene vingers Italian: pollice verde Swedish: gröna fingrar UK:  green-fingered We’re not [...]

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My mother died.  As you remember, I had stopped writing when we she was diagnosed with cancer.  She lived about 5 hours from us, and my work usually allowed only one day off at a time (Sunday and one other day), so we knew that we were going to be spending a lot of time [...]

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First the bad news (and then the rest of the bad news).   My mom has cancer.  It has spread very rapidly.  The doctor said 6 to 9 months, but she has lost ground so quickly that I don’t expect her to live to see Christmas.  She lives about 5 hours from us, and I work [...]

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This isn’t a photo from OUR garden.  We don’t have a lasagna garden.   But it’s so closely related to Raised Bed Gardening that you can’t help but run across it when you’re studying raised beds. First of all, you aren’t growing lasagna.   The name comes from the layering of materials, just as you layer a [...]

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To our regular readers (and new ones too, I guess), Sorry, but we’re taking about two weeks off.  A much needed break.  But we will be back on March 8 refreshed and ready to go.   And spring is just around the corner, so we’ll be writing more about our own garden, as well as preparing [...]

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This isn’t us. We just used a large pair of tree sized pruning shears. The weather got nice enough to actually do a little gardening today.  It was really nice to get out into the garden after so many weeks of cold, cold, cold.  There wasn’t much we could do.  The ground is still pretty [...]

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  Our garden has several defining elements that govern how the garden looks all year long.  At the back of the yard, along the property line, are several Leyland Cypress trees that are at least a dozen years old.  They serve as both background and barrier, effectively blocking out the view of the houses behind [...]

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Well…. we had quite a bit of snow this week.   As the song says, “the weather outside is frightful…”  We don’t know if the kids (and grandkids) will be able to come home this week or not.  We’re playing it by ear.  The weather channel calls for rain on Christmas day, but it’s going to [...]

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When we started this site, it was sort of a test.  I guess we weren’t really sure what it was going to be.  People have always expressed an interest in our garden, and we love to share gardening stories.  And we wanted to explore the joys and pains of gardening in the city, but we [...]

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