Welcome to the Garden Shed!
Spring is officially here! It's time to prepare the garden spot again! I hear
everyone's tillers have been broken! Maybe it's time to buy a new one!
Our lawnmower, tiller, and weed-eater bit the dust this year. You'll Herbs
and their uses at the bottom of the page.
Grow an organic garden. What's organic? Organic food is grown without using any or most
of the conventional pesticides. Nor are any petroleum-based fertilizers, bio-engineering,
sewage sludge-based fertilizers, or ionizing radiation used. Turkey manure is great for the
yard and garden! You won't be able to keep pesticides out of your garden all the time.
Japanese beetles have been proven difficult to eradicate in the U.S. You may need
something stronger than organics to get rid of them. If you have to use a chemical fertilizer or
fungicide, make sure you wear a face mask and shower afterward (you don't want this in your
house. Growing an organic garden is not difficult. Natural fertilizers and pesticides (usually
herbal) can keep your food free of chemicals, make you healthier (no chemicals in your food),
and help maintain a safer environment for everyone. Organic produce isn't as "pretty" as other
produce (you may have noticed this in the market) but it will benefit you in the long run.
Natural foods and organic foods are not the same. Organic food is grown without chemicals
(usually no chemicals have been used in the soil from 3 to 5 years before planting), not all
"natural" products are. Don't depend on the FDA to keep your foods supply safe. Unsafe
products have hit the market in the past. Take a proactive stance and grow your own organic,
chemical free garden this year.
Spring is officially here! It's time to prepare the garden spot again! I hear
everyone's tillers have been broken! Maybe it's time to buy a new one!
Our lawnmower, tiller, and weed-eater bit the dust this year. You'll Herbs
and their uses at the bottom of the page.
Grow an organic garden. What's organic? Organic food is grown without using any or most
of the conventional pesticides. Nor are any petroleum-based fertilizers, bio-engineering,
sewage sludge-based fertilizers, or ionizing radiation used. Turkey manure is great for the
yard and garden! You won't be able to keep pesticides out of your garden all the time.
Japanese beetles have been proven difficult to eradicate in the U.S. You may need
something stronger than organics to get rid of them. If you have to use a chemical fertilizer or
fungicide, make sure you wear a face mask and shower afterward (you don't want this in your
house. Growing an organic garden is not difficult. Natural fertilizers and pesticides (usually
herbal) can keep your food free of chemicals, make you healthier (no chemicals in your food),
and help maintain a safer environment for everyone. Organic produce isn't as "pretty" as other
produce (you may have noticed this in the market) but it will benefit you in the long run.
Natural foods and organic foods are not the same. Organic food is grown without chemicals
(usually no chemicals have been used in the soil from 3 to 5 years before planting), not all
"natural" products are. Don't depend on the FDA to keep your foods supply safe. Unsafe
products have hit the market in the past. Take a proactive stance and grow your own organic,
chemical free garden this year.
Why just settle for the run of the mill garden or back yard?
With today's recession, providing food for the dinner table is getting more difficult for
everyone. People are growing their food more and more, but you don't have to settle for a
plain looking garden or the run of the mill looking back yard. Many of us are putting off that
vacation to the Islands, but you don't have to miss out on the feeling of being there!
With today's recession, providing food for the dinner table is getting more difficult for
everyone. People are growing their food more and more, but you don't have to settle for a
plain looking garden or the run of the mill looking back yard. Many of us are putting off that
vacation to the Islands, but you don't have to miss out on the feeling of being there!
I grow a garden every year. It's not as large as some, we live in the city, but it produces like an acre of land. What's my secret?
I use mostly organics, composting when I can, and sparingly use pesticides or fungicides (for those stubborn pests and diseases). The most important thing I use (and have for
more than 20 years) is landscaping canvas. It keeps the weeds out, makes the garden much more attractive, easier to move around in, keeps the ground and plants moist (good
thing, we've been under drought conditions for about a year now) and will help provide more nutrition to the garden. How? When you put the canvas in the rows and around the
plants, lay hay or your favorite natural ground cover. As the ground cover begins to decompose, it seeps into the ground feeding your plants naturally. When the season is over, leave
the cover there. Remove it next spring, till the garden, and put it back. Sound like too much trouble? Try kneeling hours a day pulling weeds. Or hoeing once or twice a week in the
heat.
Have pet? We have two very spoiled Labrador retrievers. We have to use pet safe fertilizers in the backyard. Our backyard is dog friendly, in other words, we left certain areas alone
so they could dig (only natural) and lay up under the bushes. Occasionally, we have to put a plant or two back in the ground, but not very often. Our back yard is large, not the tiny
area you get with the newer homes being built today. We treasure our space and the feeling of being alone in our own little tropical paradise.
We've filled our back yard with perennials, tubers, bulb plants, bushes, and trees. Soon we'll add a few annuals. What did we use in our back yard? Let me tell you how and why we
changed a plain backyard with no landscaping into an area we live in during the spring, summer, and fall.
A few years ago, our back yard had around 20 trees lining the fence. They produced a lot of yard trash, no shade, kept the side to wet and dark to grow grass, so we had a muddy
side yard. I fell a few times and was seriously injured. So we removed the trees. After Hurricane Katrina and Ivan, more of our trees fell, including our beautiful pecan tree that
provided all our shade in the back. Our yard was now naked and uninviting. We decide to do something with all that wasted space!
We wanted to replace all the trees (birds and squirrels need homes too). We also wanted an area to grow a vegetable garden, keep our garden shed, and have a place to relax in
the sun when it wasn't too hot, or in the shade if it was. We wanted it to have our favorite flowers and features along with some our parents and grandparents had.
I designed the patio and garden myself from all that and a restaurant we went to in the Bahamas. The patio and garden are quite, like you live in the country, except we live in the city
with several thousand cars passing each week. You can’t hear the noise because of the trees in the back 40. There is a shallow cement pond with large gold fish and lilies. We
have a resident toad that irritates the dogs with his croaking during the spring. On one side is a waterfall and a statue of a young boy, on the other is a birdbath with hens n chicks
and stone crop. Around the edges of the pound, are stones similar to that of Stone Hinge.
The patio is surrounded by tall bushes, a red delicious apple, green apple, yellow apple, tartarian cherry, and Scarlet Japanese Maple trees. Here in the South, no yard is complete
without the colorful Hydrangea bushes. Our trees are large enough now to put antique rockers under them where we sit and relax. There is a stone walkway leading past the
cherries to the bananas and perennial garden. An arch covered with Carolina jasmine creates a romantic spot, along with a concreted bench on the end of the patio. Before you get
to the archway, a large bird condo made from scraps from our cedar fence is perched on a 45 degree angle with a feed hanging below it. Muscadines and succadines trellis the
deck. On the edge of the patio on one side is fire bushes, roses, dwarf arbivados, mums, gardenias, canna lilies, hostas, carnations, blue fescue, and mondo grass. Ornamental
grasses and canna lilies line the faux stream which runs the length of the garden. This year we will add a faux bridge joining the walkway and the stretch of green grass in the
center of the yard.
Grapes, kiwi, muscadines, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries are planted in a circle on the hill, just above the swing under the tree. Next to the berry circle is our garden
shed. In front, are two Lelands and a flowering bush.
The garden is in front of the swing on the left side of the yard. An open area of green grass remains for the dogs to play on.
At the back gate, we've created a court yard effect. A small patch of grass as you open the gate has a Rose of Sharon in the center and yellow bells to the right. The deck is to the left
and the patio and pond directly in front. Spices line the fence for color and cooking delight.
There are fragrant roses, English lavender, gardenias, and jasmine. We have more than 100 varieties of fruits, spices, herbs, and flowers in the garden, including pond flowers. My
favorites are the white Peruvian lilies and the Florida lilies. There is shade during the summer and a fire pit to keep us warm at night.
What more could you ask for?
No, we don't have a massive backyard, but it is larger than those in the new subdivisions they are building these days. We've tried to utilize our space for aesthetics, comfort, and
function, and I believe we have succeeded.
Come back later and I will put up a new photo of the garden in bloom. Oh, and the vegetable garden too!
The vegetable garden is in. We have corn, sweet potatoes, collards, turnip greens, spinach, okra, onions, onion tails, sweet peas, green beans, lima beans, carrots, broccoli, yellow
squash, lettuce, cucumbers, cantaloupe, water melon, pumpkin, table queen squash, spaghetti squash, cabbage, parsley, cilantro, garlic, white potatoes, green peppers, sweet
peppers, egg plant, zucchini squash, mint, beef steak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and a new dinner plate-sized tomato. We'll see just how big this tomato gets!
I use mostly organics, composting when I can, and sparingly use pesticides or fungicides (for those stubborn pests and diseases). The most important thing I use (and have for
more than 20 years) is landscaping canvas. It keeps the weeds out, makes the garden much more attractive, easier to move around in, keeps the ground and plants moist (good
thing, we've been under drought conditions for about a year now) and will help provide more nutrition to the garden. How? When you put the canvas in the rows and around the
plants, lay hay or your favorite natural ground cover. As the ground cover begins to decompose, it seeps into the ground feeding your plants naturally. When the season is over, leave
the cover there. Remove it next spring, till the garden, and put it back. Sound like too much trouble? Try kneeling hours a day pulling weeds. Or hoeing once or twice a week in the
heat.
Have pet? We have two very spoiled Labrador retrievers. We have to use pet safe fertilizers in the backyard. Our backyard is dog friendly, in other words, we left certain areas alone
so they could dig (only natural) and lay up under the bushes. Occasionally, we have to put a plant or two back in the ground, but not very often. Our back yard is large, not the tiny
area you get with the newer homes being built today. We treasure our space and the feeling of being alone in our own little tropical paradise.
We've filled our back yard with perennials, tubers, bulb plants, bushes, and trees. Soon we'll add a few annuals. What did we use in our back yard? Let me tell you how and why we
changed a plain backyard with no landscaping into an area we live in during the spring, summer, and fall.
A few years ago, our back yard had around 20 trees lining the fence. They produced a lot of yard trash, no shade, kept the side to wet and dark to grow grass, so we had a muddy
side yard. I fell a few times and was seriously injured. So we removed the trees. After Hurricane Katrina and Ivan, more of our trees fell, including our beautiful pecan tree that
provided all our shade in the back. Our yard was now naked and uninviting. We decide to do something with all that wasted space!
We wanted to replace all the trees (birds and squirrels need homes too). We also wanted an area to grow a vegetable garden, keep our garden shed, and have a place to relax in
the sun when it wasn't too hot, or in the shade if it was. We wanted it to have our favorite flowers and features along with some our parents and grandparents had.
I designed the patio and garden myself from all that and a restaurant we went to in the Bahamas. The patio and garden are quite, like you live in the country, except we live in the city
with several thousand cars passing each week. You can’t hear the noise because of the trees in the back 40. There is a shallow cement pond with large gold fish and lilies. We
have a resident toad that irritates the dogs with his croaking during the spring. On one side is a waterfall and a statue of a young boy, on the other is a birdbath with hens n chicks
and stone crop. Around the edges of the pound, are stones similar to that of Stone Hinge.
The patio is surrounded by tall bushes, a red delicious apple, green apple, yellow apple, tartarian cherry, and Scarlet Japanese Maple trees. Here in the South, no yard is complete
without the colorful Hydrangea bushes. Our trees are large enough now to put antique rockers under them where we sit and relax. There is a stone walkway leading past the
cherries to the bananas and perennial garden. An arch covered with Carolina jasmine creates a romantic spot, along with a concreted bench on the end of the patio. Before you get
to the archway, a large bird condo made from scraps from our cedar fence is perched on a 45 degree angle with a feed hanging below it. Muscadines and succadines trellis the
deck. On the edge of the patio on one side is fire bushes, roses, dwarf arbivados, mums, gardenias, canna lilies, hostas, carnations, blue fescue, and mondo grass. Ornamental
grasses and canna lilies line the faux stream which runs the length of the garden. This year we will add a faux bridge joining the walkway and the stretch of green grass in the
center of the yard.
Grapes, kiwi, muscadines, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries are planted in a circle on the hill, just above the swing under the tree. Next to the berry circle is our garden
shed. In front, are two Lelands and a flowering bush.
The garden is in front of the swing on the left side of the yard. An open area of green grass remains for the dogs to play on.
At the back gate, we've created a court yard effect. A small patch of grass as you open the gate has a Rose of Sharon in the center and yellow bells to the right. The deck is to the left
and the patio and pond directly in front. Spices line the fence for color and cooking delight.
There are fragrant roses, English lavender, gardenias, and jasmine. We have more than 100 varieties of fruits, spices, herbs, and flowers in the garden, including pond flowers. My
favorites are the white Peruvian lilies and the Florida lilies. There is shade during the summer and a fire pit to keep us warm at night.
What more could you ask for?
No, we don't have a massive backyard, but it is larger than those in the new subdivisions they are building these days. We've tried to utilize our space for aesthetics, comfort, and
function, and I believe we have succeeded.
Come back later and I will put up a new photo of the garden in bloom. Oh, and the vegetable garden too!
The vegetable garden is in. We have corn, sweet potatoes, collards, turnip greens, spinach, okra, onions, onion tails, sweet peas, green beans, lima beans, carrots, broccoli, yellow
squash, lettuce, cucumbers, cantaloupe, water melon, pumpkin, table queen squash, spaghetti squash, cabbage, parsley, cilantro, garlic, white potatoes, green peppers, sweet
peppers, egg plant, zucchini squash, mint, beef steak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and a new dinner plate-sized tomato. We'll see just how big this tomato gets!
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A couple of years ago, I helped my sister put in a tiny garden where a bare spot had been a pain in the rear. We added several spices to the mix. Later that summer she was amazed by the butterflies drawn to the
colorful and fragrant spot, but the real surprised was how many humming birds hit the herbs. We've had herbs hidden in our yard for years. And during the summer, birds, butterflies, and humming birds flock to the
back yard. Something amazing happened one day. I stood nose to beak with the tiniest baby humming bird, until it's momma swooped in a rushed it off. I've just started this table of herbs, so be patient! It's a table I
began a couple of years ago. Frustrated that I could never find ALL the information I needed, I began compiling the information for my own use. I decided to share it with you. We'll be adding more and more herbs,
along with vitamin content, medicinal and other uses. Note: not all herbs are used for cooking. If you have a use for a spice or herb where an X is please send it to me.
colorful and fragrant spot, but the real surprised was how many humming birds hit the herbs. We've had herbs hidden in our yard for years. And during the summer, birds, butterflies, and humming birds flock to the
back yard. Something amazing happened one day. I stood nose to beak with the tiniest baby humming bird, until it's momma swooped in a rushed it off. I've just started this table of herbs, so be patient! It's a table I
began a couple of years ago. Frustrated that I could never find ALL the information I needed, I began compiling the information for my own use. I decided to share it with you. We'll be adding more and more herbs,
along with vitamin content, medicinal and other uses. Note: not all herbs are used for cooking. If you have a use for a spice or herb where an X is please send it to me.
Trying to save money or just eat healthier? We found a way
to do both. We save up to 75% on our fresh produce bill by
growing our own vegetables, herbs and spices, and fruit.
And it's healthier because we don't pollute the soil with
chemicals (or our bodies). Plus, we don't spend it on
water. We put in a misting system for our flowers and a
gray water system for the garden. You can save money this
year by putting in your own garden and gray watering
system like we did. Our affiliates have everything you need!
to do both. We save up to 75% on our fresh produce bill by
growing our own vegetables, herbs and spices, and fruit.
And it's healthier because we don't pollute the soil with
chemicals (or our bodies). Plus, we don't spend it on
water. We put in a misting system for our flowers and a
gray water system for the garden. You can save money this
year by putting in your own garden and gray watering
system like we did. Our affiliates have everything you need!
Create your own botanical garden or tropical oasis. We did!. Grow an herb garden or blend them into the yard. Our vegetable garden is far from the ordinary. Don't have a back
yard? Not a problem. Live in an apartment? Still not a problem. You can grow live plants in window boxes, the front porch, deck, or kitchen window! Don't have a green thumb? Not a
problem. Get an air plant. They're attractive, easy to care for, and they add color and warmth to your home. Have a green thumb but not much time to spend in the garden? Then I'll
share my secret with you!
yard? Not a problem. Live in an apartment? Still not a problem. You can grow live plants in window boxes, the front porch, deck, or kitchen window! Don't have a green thumb? Not a
problem. Get an air plant. They're attractive, easy to care for, and they add color and warmth to your home. Have a green thumb but not much time to spend in the garden? Then I'll
share my secret with you!
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Our vegetable garden is in and the canvas is down for weedfree gardening. We have
corn, sweet potatoes, collards, turnip greens, spinach, okra, onions, onion tails,
sweet peas, green beans, lima beans, carrots, broccoli, yellow squash, lettuce,
cucumbers, cantaloupe, water melon, pumpkin, table queen squash, spaghetti
squash, cabbage, parsley, cilantro, garlic, white potatoes, green peppers, sweet
peppers, egg plant, zucchini squash, mint, beef steak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes,
and a new dinner plate-sized tomato. We'll see just how big this tomato gets!
corn, sweet potatoes, collards, turnip greens, spinach, okra, onions, onion tails,
sweet peas, green beans, lima beans, carrots, broccoli, yellow squash, lettuce,
cucumbers, cantaloupe, water melon, pumpkin, table queen squash, spaghetti
squash, cabbage, parsley, cilantro, garlic, white potatoes, green peppers, sweet
peppers, egg plant, zucchini squash, mint, beef steak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes,
and a new dinner plate-sized tomato. We'll see just how big this tomato gets!
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