Vacation Observations

While many in our area are seeing visions of their gardens dance in the seed magazines we spent a good portion of May in Las Vegas for the first leg of our spring vacation.  Our house is still for sale so I really don't want to get too attached to starting up the garden beds although I will be focusing on movable containers this year.  At any rate May for us is always spring vacation month that

How to Make A 5 Gallon Bucket Garden

There really is very little to do in my gardens right now other than a bit of spring clean-up on the nicer days.  I arranged to have several stumps and a couple of old beds completely ripped out yesterday morning.  This is being hired out so will be ready for top soil is less than half a day!  I may be able to do a bit of grass seeding but really it is too early yet.  At any rate I'm doing a few

Dealing with Garden Pilfering

Every gardener regardless of garden location experiences some type of loss due to pilfering.  In most cases the culprits are of the four legged or winged variety.  In some locations more so urban than rural the home gardener may also encounter pilfering by the two legged thief.    Yesterday's post discussed turning the front yard of a residential home in an urban setting into a edible garden.