Did you know there are at least 10,000 GREAT reasons to invite toads into your yard and garden this summer? That's right! According to the USDA, just one adult toad will eat 10,000 pesky insects in a single summer. Not only that, these efficient …
4 Tips for Enhancing Your Outdoor Living Space
Our lives have been all about home renovations over the last year or so. Having designed and built two houses from the ground up before venturing into this project… I can say first hand that remodeling an existing home (especially one as trashed as …
Finding Room to Grow More Fruits & Veggies
Short on space for your vegetable garden? No problem! Today we'll talk about an easy way to grow more fruits, vegetables and herbs - even if you don't think you have the room for it. The only requirement is that you have access to some outdoor …
Choosing the Best Plants for Your Garden
Have you ever bought a really cool plant on impulse - only to find there is nowhere in your garden that really suits it? Guilty as charged here. I'm a bit of a plant collector myself and can usually "find" a good location for whatever I drag …
Gardening from a Clean Slate
The last year has brought some big changes for me... I got married, became a stepmom to 3 really great girls, lost two of my three beloved elderly dogs... and moved to a new area. Okay, it's not really "new" - I grew up here, but left 25 …