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Category: In the Garden

  • Today’s backyard harvest!

    I have so many tomatoes that one plant fell off the support and is bent over. I’m hoping I can save him! #garden #backyardgarden #phx #phxgarden #urbanfarming #urbanfarm #suburbs #suburban #suburbanfarming #tinygarden

  • A Garden Update

    In late summer of 2015, we did a HUGE side yard overhaul and built six large raised gardening beds.  I had soil problems and didn’t have a lot of success that fall/winter.  I planted a lot during the summer of 2016 and realized I had some pretty massive soil problems ~ worse than I’d thought.…

  • Starting a Garden in the Desert ~ Part 3 ~ My Complete Start Up Costs

    I recently overhauled my large side yard and installed all new raised beds for a total 112 square feet of gardening space.  My complete start up expenses have been: $160 wood and hardware for beds $330 soil, delivery and spreading (this was a mistake…the soil I got was NOT good) $120 on starts and seeds…

  • Starting a Garden in the Desert ~ Part 3 ~ My Complete Start Up Costs

    I recently overhauled my large side yard and installed all new raised beds for a total 112 square feet of gardening space.  My complete start up expenses have been: $160 wood and hardware for beds $330 soil, delivery and spreading (this was a mistake…the soil I got was NOT good) $120 on starts and seeds…

  • Starting a Garden in the Desert ~ Part 2 ~ Raised Beds

    As I mentioned in Part 1, I started out trying to amend in-ground beds in my own backyard, and had issues with plants dying and/or not growing.  The previous owner had used pavers to outline a veggie garden area, but when we bought the house, everything she’d planted was very small and very dead.  We…

  • Starting a Garden in the Desert ~ Part 2 ~ Raised Beds

    As I mentioned in Part 1, I started out trying to amend in-ground beds in my own backyard, and had issues with plants dying and/or not growing.  The previous owner had used pavers to outline a veggie garden area, but when we bought the house, everything she’d planted was very small and very dead.  We…

  • Starting a Garden in the Desert ~ Part 1 ~ Where/how to Plant?

    I love to garden. I’m not very good at it still, but I like the idea of being able to grow some of the fruits and veggies we eat.  Especially our favorites.  Organic is just too expensive typically, but I can grow organic in my backyard pretty easily and inexpensively.  This series will chronical my…

  • A fairy garden…

    [pinterest]   I love plants, I love gardening and I love gardening with my children. I am just getting over being sick for the better part of a month.  It started with the flu, progressed to pneumonia, then I got another virus and then a horrible sinus infection.  When I finally started to feel a [clear_floats]…