Category: GARDENING
Gardening projects by Belle of Dirt and book information. Latest products available from the garden- salves, tinctures, dried herbs and seeds.
Posted on August 25, 2015
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When we moved to this property over 15 years ago, the previous owner had lost it to repossession. I guess he decided he wasn’t letting the bank have anything that wasn’t in the original deal, so he tore the back porch down that he’d…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: braken fern, christmas fern, fern and rock garden, fern garden, ferns, gardening with native plants, missouri native plants, planting beds for shade, planting long thin bed, planting narrow spaces, planting with native plants, shade garden, sidewalk garden, using native plants, wild fern, wild fern garden
Posted on May 11, 2015
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This is a post where you get to learn from my poor planning and lack of foresight. Or if you’re a more experienced gardener, you can just say, “Tsk. Tsk.” or “I feel your pain.” A couple years ago we made these great wooden…
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Posted on August 1, 2014
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We moved to our current home in March of 2001. My husband looked at the yard and saw a barren mess; dusty in summer, brown in fall, mud-pit any time in rained. It has taken me over a decade to coax the natural beauty…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: Bermuda grass, brown lawn, environmentally friendly lawn, grass plugs, grass seed, green lawn without chemicals, greener lawn, grow lawn in drought, growing grass, kid safe lawn, lawn improvement, mow less, warm season grasses, warm season lawn, water conservation, water less, Zoysia grass
Posted on June 5, 2014
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Walking through the woods a couple weekends ago with family, we came across an area of Pa Pa’s property that we hadn’t visited before. It was a far corner along the property line, the woods there so thick and close that the light was…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: amish garden, burial mounds, garden in clay, garden preppers, garden survivalism, hill culture, hill gardening, hugelkultur gardening, hugelkultur mounds, Hugelkulture, lasagna garden, layered garden, mound gardening, permanent garden, raised beds, Shawnee burial mounds
Posted on May 22, 2014
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Nah. I’m not going to chance it. 🙂 We aren’t under attack by a half-mad pervert from the underworld, but have experienced a strange spectacle around here the past several days. My daughter found the first of our green invaders in the office, running…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: beetle invasion, beetle swarm, beetles, beetles in garden, beetles in the house, cat door stop, caterpillar beetle, caterpillar natural enemies, fiery beetle, green beetle, ground beetles, raccoons eat beetles, raccoons eat caterpillar beetles, shiny green beetle, what caterpillar beetles eat
Posted on May 22, 2013
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Ok, HERE is the planting article I started to write before I got distracted by the raised planting bed subject. Only our peppers and tomato plants were started in the house and transplanted as seedlings, everything else I sowed directly into the garden as…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: coffee tomato plants, eggshells tomato plants, garden care, garden layout, garden planning, garden watering requirements, harden off plants, hardening off, night temperatures, pepper plants, pepper plants temperature, planting seedlings, prevent tomato blossom rot, soil additives, staking tomato plants, staking tomatoes, tomato blossom rot, tomato plants, tomato plants sun, topdressing, vegetable plants, when to plant pepper plants, when to plant tomato plants
Posted on May 21, 2013
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This article originally started out as a planting guide for those seedlings I’ve been raising, but then I realized there might be a bit I could say on the subject of where those seedlings will be going once they are ready to move outdoors….
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Category: GARDENINGTags: build raised bed, container gardening, keep rodents out of raised beds, keep rodents out of vegetables, plant raised bed, plants in raised bed, raised bed, raised bed concrete block, raised bed gardening, raised bed hardware cloth, raised bed planter, raised bed planting, raised bed rock, raised bed soil amendment, raised bed versus in ground planting, raised bed wood, raised beds
Posted on April 30, 2013
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So I thought I would at least post a few photos I took of the yard today. Stuff is blooming and the bees and butterflies are very busy. It’s been like summer here the past couple days too, upper 80’s. I’m ready to break…
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Posted on April 16, 2013
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I promised an update when I transplanted seeds… I’m a bit late since I actually did this almost 3 weeks ago. I did save the pictures though, so I can still run through that bit. My daughter is at school and I didn’t want…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: edible garden, harden off seedlings, pepper plant seedlings, pepper plant transplants, pepper plants, prepapre seedlings for outdoors, root development, seedlings, starting seeds, tomato plant seedlings, tomato plants, tomato plants calcium, tomato seedlings, tomato transplants, transplant peppers, transplant tomatoes, transplanting spring seedlings
Posted on April 8, 2013
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The bright yellow cascades of bell-shaped flowers on my forsythia bush join daffodils, hibiscus and magnolias as one of the early bloomers of spring. I’ve watched people at Lowes buy these plants en masse, wondering to myself if they realize just how large they…
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Category: GARDENINGTags: forsythia, forsythia bush, forsythia care, forsythia cuttings, forsythia esplander, forsythia hedge, forsythia hedgerow, forsythia medicine, forsythia plant, forsythia planting, forsythia size, forsythia spring, forsythia uses, forsythia weeping, forsythia yellow bell, forsythia yellow bell flowers, forsythias, forysythia blooms, growing forsythia, yellow bell flowers, yellow blooms
