It has been so long since I posted a garden update, I figured even though I don’t have a lot of good news or gardening tips, I needed to post something.
Right before we left on vacation I planted all my seedlings. They were doing pretty well and I wanted to get them in the ground [...]

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On Friday I decided to stop by the garden on the way home from taking my oldest three children to play practice. I was going to quickly put some plants into the ground, while my three little kids played nearby. When I arrived at the plot I noticed a large number of cars in the [...]

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Here are a few tips to save on landscaping this season.
Mulch with junk mail. JD over at Get Rich Slowly has an interesting post on using shredded paper to mulch your garden. I love this idea, you are saving money, making better use of all those annoying credit card offers, and recycling.

Plant perennials to save [...]

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This week is a depressing week for my garden. Last week we attempted to till the garden. My husband woke up bright and early and rented a tiller from the local garden store. All was going well, until the tiller hit some chicken wire. The tiller broke and the garden was less than one-half of [...]

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Hi, my name is The Happy Housewife and I am addicted to watching plants. No one told me that gardening was addictive. All day, every day I enter my “greenhouse” room and check my seedlings. Sometimes I just stare at them in hopes that they will sprout before my eyes. It is amazing. One day [...]

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Time for another garden update.
Last week I planted many of my seeds in various items I had lying around the house.

It is still a little too early to put things in the ground, and I am a little late starting the seeds, but better late than never I guess.
I planted the seedlings on a warm [...]

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