raised beds Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles https://www.petscribbles.com/tag/raised-beds/ Gardening is my sanity Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:50:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.petscribbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png raised beds Archives - Garden Sanity by Pet Scribbles https://www.petscribbles.com/tag/raised-beds/ 32 32 How to Plan a New Garden https://www.petscribbles.com/how-to-plan-a-new-garden/ https://www.petscribbles.com/how-to-plan-a-new-garden/#respond Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:50:55 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=20263 How to plan a new garden

How to plan a new garden with detailed advice about effort, sun, soil, deer, rabbits, trees, shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals. With careful planning, you can have a new garden that will thrive! Planning a new garden — especially when you’re starting from scratch or are new to gardening — can seem overwhelming! But the...

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Enjoy this garden tour of our front yard foundation garden beds in Fall. These easy-care foundation plantings provide beautiful color year round. Includes video! My final Fall Garden Tour for this season? The foundation garden beds in our grass-free front yard. Below are several images of the garden beds, and at the end of this...

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Enjoy this November garden tour of our front yard “other” side bed featuring red twig and yellow twig dogwoods, a river birch tree, Knock Out roses, grasses, evergreens and perennials. Includes video! The other side bed in our front yard — for lack of a better name — is an easy bed to maintain, mainly...

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Enjoy this Fall garden tour of one of the side beds in our front yard! In mid-Fall, this bed features color and texture from drying Little Lime Hydrangeas, Piglet grasses, perennials plus several evergreens in varying shades of green. This time of year, when many perennials have finished up for the season, there is still...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/fall-garden-tour-featuring-color-and-texture/feed/ 2 Blue Star Kalimeris or False Aster loves heat and humidity! https://www.petscribbles.com/blue-star-kalimeris-or-false-aster/ https://www.petscribbles.com/blue-star-kalimeris-or-false-aster/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:52:12 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=17797 Blue Star Kalimeris

Blue Star Kalimeris (Kalimeris incisa Blue Star) is an easy-care perennial. Loves heat and humidity. Pale blue flowers bloom all Summer. A must-have plant for your flower garden! I’ve been working on my gardens almost non-stop this season. Sometimes I almost feel like it isn’t truly gardening, as my chores have included things like scraping...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/blue-star-kalimeris-or-false-aster/feed/ 2 I hate garlic chives. https://www.petscribbles.com/i-hate-garlic-chives/ https://www.petscribbles.com/i-hate-garlic-chives/#comments Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:25:14 +0000 https://www.petscribbles.com/?p=16473 garlic chives invasion

I hate garlic chives. Love them to eat, but hate them in my garden. Alternate title? That time my garden became overwhelmed by garlic chives. I hate garlic chives. There. I said it.  Let me clarify . . .  I love to eat garlic chives, love the taste, love the scent. But garlic chives in...

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I’m going to show you how to remove wild mushrooms the easy way! No chemicals or DIY liquid mixtures needed! I think mushrooms are cute, but not when the pop up in our garden beds. I plunked Mr. Gnome next to them, thinking he would help the mushrooms look like an actual garden feature. Although I totally...

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]]> How to Build a Raised Garden Bed for Vegetables https://www.petscribbles.com/how-to-build-raised-garden-bed-for/ https://www.petscribbles.com/how-to-build-raised-garden-bed-for/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:42:00 +0000 http://209.236.127.209/~petscrib/?p=201 How to Build a Raised Garden Bed for Awesome Vegetables!

Let me set the scene…  One day last Spring, my husband I were looking at the backyard and considering what projects we needed to do, versus what projects we wanted to do. (We still have a long way to go in terms of getting this yard into shape.) We originally created a nice-sized vegetable bed area...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/how-to-build-raised-garden-bed-for/feed/ 21 Our Backyard Firepit Area https://www.petscribbles.com/our-backyard-firepit-area/ https://www.petscribbles.com/our-backyard-firepit-area/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:00:00 +0000 http://209.236.127.209/~petscrib/?p=207 our DIY backyard firepit area

This is a short story on the evolution of our DIY backyard firepit area. Back in 2007 . . . I wish I would have taken pictures of what our backyard looked like when we moved in, back in September 2007. But I have a very good reason that I didnt: it looked awful. Our...

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]]> https://www.petscribbles.com/our-backyard-firepit-area/feed/ 19 A tale of two rabbits! https://www.petscribbles.com/a-tale-of-two-rabbits/ https://www.petscribbles.com/a-tale-of-two-rabbits/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:01:00 +0000 http://209.236.127.209/~petscrib/?p=277 rabbits in the front garden

A tale of two rabbits. Yes, it appears we’ve been running a rabbit hotel. I’m flattered the rabbits love our garden. But honestly, this is not good. Well, last week I shared with you the story of a cute rabbit that we spotted in and around our backyard. If you missed it, you can read...

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