Do you have a secret garden?

 

...if you do, I'd love to hear about it in the comments! 

This is our backyard, where I also have my nursery and chickies. 

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My nursery inspector comes yearly. She always tells me I should have garden tours, but I definitely don't think it's ready for that. Maybe one day...

It's a work in progress, but I enjoy my time there! 

 

Weed Control On The Cheap

 I'm a member of Mike's group, and have learned SO much from this man, as well as his long time members/growers. 

Here's a great article on using boxes as a weed barrier. I've done this, and am fixing to lay some down again shortly. We've got quite a collection of boxes from Christmas/winter. 😅

Works great! #gardening 

Cardboard Boxes As Weed Control

Herbs from the garden..

Cut a small group of herbs and strawberry leaves from the garden today to dry. Hoping that my heirloom rose gives me enough blooms this year to make some rose water which is very good for complexion issues ,soothing sunburn and rashes.
Do any of you all use your herbs for salves, teas or cooking?

Growing Potatoes In Buckets..

With everything going on, and quite a bit of talk about possible food insecurity, I hope you all plant something this year, anything is better than nothing! Did you know that chives, green onions and parsley all have fair amounts of vitamin C? So if getting fruit from the store wouldn't be an option, greens will do. None of us really know where all this is going, but we're blessed enough to still have seeds and plants available right now. My mom worked at Mooniers greenhouse for close to 30 years. IF I know anything at all, it's due to her teaching me lol. Everything she grows is just beautiful. I'm going to try this bucket method for potatoes this year. Our yard is soaked every spring, so potatoes didn't do well here last year. Let me know if you try it! I'm also going to plant a 3 sisters garden..I'll post a link on that as well soon.
Please stay home if you can, and take the time to do things that you usually can't..enjoy the Spring days while we wait for this virus to burn itself out.

-Cheryl

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