Gardening Turned Up to Eleven

This is the first year I've been able to grow anything for real, and outside. I decided to try and grow melons (watermelon, canteloupe a...

With the hot weather cooling off just a bit, I took a look outside to see what was buzzing around the garden. I used to be scared of anythi...

It's been a crazy two weeks - between an unexpected work trip, and a broken computer (it won't turn on! at all!) I need to get back ...

Since this is the first year I've planted vegetables, I was very excited when some of them were ripe. The first ones were a bunch of Le...

When I first started redoing the front garden three years ago, I ended up with a lot of grasses - mainly blue fescue (Festuca glauca 'E...

The front garden has (basically) three beds - the main one, the dry creek bed, and the "filled with rocks" bed. For the first year...

A few weeks ago, I was looking for a tool (my ultra-sonic distance estimator). No wonder I couldn't find it: My tool storage in the g...

This isn't really a garden, but an upscale, outdoor shopping area in San Jose, CA. I was struck by their landscaping and use of plants w...

This week in the front garden: After a week of hot weather, the garden still looks sort-of lush. The roses are starting to rebloom, whi...

After Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, its always good to look at all the foliage in the garden too, especially when the crazy weather has be...