My older daughter wants to make a green bean tipi. She dragged home some enormous fallen branches from the woods (twice her own height) and ...

(I know my structure isn't technically a greenhouse, but I never really think of it as a coldframe- I always picture something low to th...

I found out this is not a fern . It's in a different plant family. It's just called  asparagus fern because the fine-leaved needles ...

Spent half the day in the yard with my four-year-old. She really wanted to buy some spring bulbs we saw at the store the other day (on sale)...

African violet flowers starting to open. The other plant doesn't even have buds yet. I can't believe I didn't mention or sh...

Getting really pleased with the peony. Even though I don't care for peony flowers (I grow it for the foliage) I can't wait to see ...

I hurried to pluck enough lettuce for a small salad yesterday. My lettuces are not very big yet, but already it is getting fairly hot in t...

Most of my seedlings got potted up out of the milk jug planters. This year what did well for me winter-planted in the jugs: borage, cosmos...

I have quit wrapping the coldframe at night, just closing it tight (it needs new weather stripping already). I had been regularly bringing...

My tenner continues to do much better than the main tank. This morning I even saw a range of bubbles scattered across the surface in one cor...