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the desperate gardeners,A blog for home gardening tips,planting, harvesting ,cooking and serving
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Welcome to The Desperate Gardener blog.
We are Linda (garden enthusiast) and Jane(master gardener) who live in Phoenix Arizona. We are avid gardeners who met a few years ago at a garden club comprised of some truly amazing and talented women! We have decided it is time to take our wealth of experience and our love for gardening and all the ways it can enhance the home and family to the next level. So we planted..........
- Added on: May 3rd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: linda
- Listed in: Home Cooking Gardening
- Tags: garden cooking flowers arizona vegetables fruits
Recent Posts
Jane’s French Breakfast Radish Harvest and Memories of the Children’s Table
My grandparents whom we called Nana and Dana lived in a ranch home on the shore of Lake Erie in Ontario Canada. They built their home on a corner of my grandfather’s family farm property. I grew up in Detroit and our family along with my aunts, unc...
Creating an Entrance to Mary's Garden
After a few years of gardening haphazardly, I decided it was time to invest in a real, grown-up garden with raised beds. Gardening filled my soul so I wondered why it took me so long to finally create a special space in my yard. I was inspired by the...
Linda's Carrot Harvest on April 14th 2009
I have always had great luck with my carrots they grow beautifully here in Sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. Just sow the seeds in a row and 45-60 days later you get yummy carrots! You are supposed to plant them every couple of weeks so you'll have a consta...
Jane's infant garden and how it all got started..........
What does this infant garden do for me? (Current photos are below story) It reminds me of how I started gardening as an adult. My husband and I purchased our first “real” house in the fall of 1993 – just before our daughter was born. It was a w...
The road less traveled - weeding
Yesterday, I (Jane) spent a good amount of time hoeing the never ending weeds out of my garden and actually enjoyed it. I should call my mom and tell her as she just might fall over given the grief I gave her growing up over weeding our backyard gard...
Crazy Chamomile... in Mary's Garden
Two years ago, my daughter, Elisabeth (then 6) offered to help me plant in the garden. Armed with our packets of seeds, we headed out to the back yard. Before I could talk about the planting "plan", Elisabeth tore open the packet of chamomile seeds a...
