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Backyard Gardening

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Gardening & Landscaping blog from Michigan.

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  • San Francisco’s New Composting Law

    Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 11:44 in gardening, troubleshooting

    I just heard about this on the news. Apparently today a new law in San Francisco took affect, enacting the strictest trash ordinance in the country. Everyone either has to compost at home, or get a separate bin to put their compostables in for curbsi...

  • How to Propagate Hydrangea

    Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 20:10 in gardening

    I love big mophead hydrangeas, they do really well in shade or part sun, and get big bright flowers on them. They don’t do well north of where I am, but I’m pretty much at the northern border of where you’ll reliably get blooms ever...

  • Stalking the Purple Potato

    Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 07:48 in edible gardening

    I love the idea of purple potatoes. Antioxidants and various other nutrituiets are often marked by color and flavor. Foods that are colorful, like blueberries or pomegranites, or butternut squash, have nutritients. Also, foods that are flavorful, cin...

  • Squash, Frost, Babies, and Kiwi

    Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 19:50 in gardening, edible gardening

    I’ve been a busy bee. Not blogging though. My last post, prior to this one, was July 30th. On August 1st my wife went back to work, which left work-at-home dad (aka me) as sole caretaker during the day for our then 2 month (now 4 month) year ol...

  • Smelly Soupy Poopy Compost Tumbler

    Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 18:31 in troubleshooting

    Composting is not an exact science, and even someone who has used a compost tumbler for a long time like me can mess up. I use my compost tumbler in the following way: I take brown paper bags and while cooking put scraps of veggies, peels, watermelo...

  • The Best Type of Pot for Container Gardening

    Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 21:04 in gardening, landscape design

    Garden planters can be made of a wide variety of materials, do you know which is best, do you know the pros and cons of each? Ceramic Ceramic or clay pots from plain terra cotta to fancy glazed colorful examples, are some of the most widely recogniz...

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5 stars Karen Sloan

Fantastic garden blog. Chock full of great information.
Keep up the good work : )

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