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Confessions of a part-time gardener

Back Yard West Garden Corner 03-29-10

Dear Reader,

If your garden plans don’t always turn out the way you expected don’t give up. Call it a challenge! Here’s mine…

The year 2010 is gone and it’s time for me to ‘fess up about the good, the bad, and the ugly of my gardening efforts over the last [...]

Benjamin Rabbit Defends

I’ve been learning some great nature gardening tips from Carole Brown over at Ecosystem Gardening. If you’re wondering what to do with all the sticks which fall from the trees in your yard, Carole has the answer. Make a brush pile.

So, after the most recent storm, when a whole pile-worth of [...]

Nature Hates Bare Soil

Self-seeded Wild Flowers

I don’t know if you’ve really stopped and thought about this, but nature hates bare soil, which means you can carpet your nature garden with masses of flowers, practically for free.

My native plant woodland garden was planted nine years ago. I’ve spent very little on plants for it over the years, yet [...]

Kansas City Gardening for Africa

Grant and Paige Shadden – 2005

Grant and Paige Shadden are a sweet, young Kansas City couple who want to grow their own, healthy vegetables, in their own back yard. It sounds unremarkable.

But Grant and Paige know the value and power of organic vegetable gardening and they are doing something unusual. They are gardening in [...]

Extreme Back Yard Makeover

Back Yard West Garden Corner 03-29-10

Here I am writing about gardening, wonderful, nature-attracting plants, and yummy, succulent veggies while my own back yard needs an extreme makeover.

Bland Patchy Grass

Fear not garden friends, Rachel Mathews of Successful Garden Design could be the superhero my garden needs to rescue this lack-luster space from bland, patchy, grass [...]

Confessions of a part-time gardener

Benjamin Rabbit Defends

Nature Hates Bare Soil

Kansas City Gardening for Africa

Extreme Back Yard Makeover

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