Category Archives: Dave’s Gardening Corner

Just a message of hope for all you fellow Grape Hyacinth Haters out there (and ohhhh how I hate them….). I’ve been fighting them for four years now, carefully pulling each bulb one by one. My front yard is now … Continue reading →

It’s been almost three years since I last posted on my war with the grape hyacinths (aka Muscari). Time for an update. The good news is that my front yard has now been almost grape hyacinth free for a full … Continue reading →

I always try to do something different every year just to expand my horizons so to speak. This year, Courtney and I settled on Moss Rose, an adorable ground cover with thick, waxy leaves and large red, purple, and yellow … Continue reading →

We are finally done with canning for the season. We ended up canning 18 jars of juice total, though we have probably another 150 to 200 tomatoes sitting on the vine right now. We’ll be using the rest to make … Continue reading →

I’m not sure what I did, but we have tomato plants to rival any other tomato plant anywhere. Before their mass collapsed the sturdy cages I bought for them, two of them were approaching six feet tall and over 6 … Continue reading →

I must be doing something right with my flowers…. In the past month, I’ve had around half a dozen daffodils, a handful of tulips, and now, just last night, two of my best pansies stolen from my garden. I don’t … Continue reading →

It’s been a very long time since I’ve posted in this particular series, and to be honest, I wouldn’t be posting if I didn’t find myself needing to repair a concrete-faced gravity wall. We built the wall about two years … Continue reading →

One of my blogging buddies (Authorias, aka Messagehawk) once said something to the effect that you know you’ve written something well when it becomes worthy of stealing. I suppose that probably applies to plants too. Well, apparently I’ve done something … Continue reading →