Wow, July was a very dry month for us here in Missouri…although the total amount of rainfall was near normal…that 3 inches all came in the first few days of the month…and then nothing for the rest of the month. Things have struggled in the drought and heat this month…there were several weeks of very [...]
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Here is a time lapse video of my hill garden from April 1st 2011 to may 31st 2011. It begins with the forsythia in bloom in the pot, and some bulbs. Soon the serviceberry trees bloom white and everything starts turning green. The Siberian Iris in the pot are growing, and when they begin blooming [...]
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May was a great month for the garden! I spent a lot of time out there and am pleased that it looks as good as it does. It has rained quite a bit and everything is extremely green! I stepped back for some of these photos so you can see the design of the garden [...]
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Here are some photos from my garden in April 2011. It was a very rainy month and some of the photos really turned out nice…they are worth a click to see the larger image because the thumbnails really don’t do them justice. I particularly like the way the rain droplets look…I think my favorite photo [...]
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Here is the first time lapse video of the garden….April 2011 Note the video begins with the forsythia in bloom and the hill still brown and not cut back or mulched. Then the serviceberries bloom and the grass and hill start to turn green. The next installment for May should show the hill burst into [...]
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Here is a collection of photo’s showing what is in flower in my garden during September 2010 Its getting close to fall but there is still a lot of diversity in the showy flowers and plants this time of year.
Posted in Growing Food, Uncategorized Tags: agastache, amsonia, annual, aurea, autumn, backyard, beautyberry, begonia, buhddha, callicarpa, cauliflower, coleus, compost, compost bin, cool season, creeping jenny, crepe myrtle, dilatatum, eco, edible, erie, eupatorium, fall, firebird, food, garden, gardening, goldenrod, greggii, growing, hubrechtii, ipomoea batatas, japanese beautyberry, japonica, knock out, landscape, landscaping, lettuce, maraschino, melampodium, melanie, photo, photography, plant, plants, potatoes, residential, rose, roses, rugosum, sage, salvia, september, shade garden, solidago, speet potatoes, St. Louis, suburban, terrapene carolina, triunguis, turtle, vegetables, viburnum, vinca, zinnia No Comments »
Time for another tour of the garden! June is a big month for the garden!!! Things that were small in the beginning of the month are huge now. Beans and corn that were still seeds a month ago are now over 5 feet tall! Here is a gallery of photos I took, mostly from June 21st (solstice) [...]
Posted in Growing Food, Uncategorized Tags: backyard, eco, ecological, economical, edible, food, fruit, gallery, garden, gardening, growing, home, home grown, landscape, landscaping, organic, photos, plants, produce, raised beds, residential, suburban, sustainable, tour, trees, urban agriculture, vegetable, vegetables, victory garden No Comments » Deer Resistance So one of the most asked questions I hear from people in areas with deer is ‘what can I plant that the deer won’t eat!” This is tough for many reasons…deer eat things where they found something edible before (like if they eat your vegetables…and next year you plant poisonous plants there in [...]
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2010 EDIBLE LANDSCAPE PLAN DRAWING 11X17 click this link to download I thought it was very important for you to have access to the garden design for the Sprawlstainable Garden. This drawing shows the entire site, the legend to all the edible plantings of fruits and vegetables, the house, the gardens, the patios, etc. The download [...]
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By Mary Francois Deweese – Registered Landscape Architect and Sustainable Site Consultant, Principal of Acorn Landscapes, St. Louis, MO. Today mulch is a staple of the nursery industry and home gardeners are using it with un-cautioned abandon, presumably for the benefit, though sometimes to the detriment, of their plants. This article takes a look at [...]
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