How to Plant Blueberry Bushes

The blueberry plants arrived! I wanted to get them in the ground ASAP so I followed the planting instructions and here’s what they told me to do:1. Dig a 2-foot by 2-foot hole. I admit I fudged a little and the holes were more like 18″X18″. A 2-foot...

Ever-Blooming Flower Beds

I have developed my own formula for year-round flower bed gorgeousness. 1. Bedding plants up front. LOTS. You can buy them(expensive) or start them indoors from seed, but two shifts of annual bedding plants are the cornerstone of a ‘showy from outer space’...

Moderately Sinful Chocolate Pecan Pie

This isn’t a “diet” pie or a sugar-free pie. It’s a pie. It’s naughty. Just not as much as usual.Less than half the sugar of the typical pecan pie, no butter. Nothing particularly righteous about 2/3 of a cup of sugar, but it’s...

Mortarless Paving

Ivory asked me to show her how I put this together a while back: Since I wanted to do something similar with this little beauty spot . . . . . . I took a few pictures of the process. The bricks I used here were some of the perforated facing bricks left over from old...

Getting Ivory’s Goat

Ivory, having read her town’s ordinances carefully, acquired four hens a year ago and recently acquired Lilly who may possibly grow to 2 ft and 50 pounds. (Isn’t she The Cutest Thing Ever?). Ivory’s town has been meeting about this goat (and her soon...