Yard Work You Can Do During Quarantine Get your edging, pruning, weeding and mulching done now before the growing season makes it harder to maintain.After a long winter ... Read more >>>
Curb Appeal Update 2018
How Our Yard is Looking One Year After UpdatesAbout a year ago I shared how to make vinyl shutters look brand new. It was supposed to be a series of 'curb appeal' posts about ... Read more >>>
Cherry-Picked: AcuRite Rain Gauge
My Favorite Wireless Rain Gauge?You might laugh when I say I am not a weather nerd. Yet here I am confessing my love for a rain gauge!* But it's all because what I am a total ... Read more >>>
Cleaning Up Yard for Winter
Being pregnant has lots of perks. People holding doors open for you and offering to do your heavy-lifting, etc. But one thing I'm not digging (pardon the pun...) is not being able ... Read more >>>
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
How does your garden grow? Mine? Not so well...I created this flower bed in April of 2013 to spruce up the outside of my garage. There was grass there, so it required ... Read more >>>
Newspaper Method for Preparing Soil for Planting Beds in Spring
I had heard about the "newspaper method" from Amy Hughes on Today's Homeowner Radio a while back. The newspaper method is a slow way to soften soil or kill weeds and grasses so you ... Read more >>>