Author: Bob Bauer

I got my whole garden weed-eated yesterday in under ten minutes. It looks great. I’m ecstatic that I won’t have to spend so much time weeding this summer. I’ll hula hoe the seed beds and tops of the mounds, but everything else will get mowed to the ground. If I keep on top of it the garden will look great […]

I can’t believe I’m going to need to drag out the weed eater this time of year. The weeds in the garden are growing like it’s spring time. Some of the pathways that I’ve weed-eated over and over are now low growing and solid like ground cover. I’m good with that. It’s nature’s choice, and doesn’t interfere with the veggies. […]

The garlic and onion patches are beginning to sprout little spears. It’s good to see the return of a new growing season. I’ll be starting my spring garden indoors, in six packs, in a couple of weeks, so it feels like winter is over. The warm weather has brought out some wasps that are reducing the whitefly population. The return […]

Green, tan, gray and brown, the winter colors are upon us. Our gardens mimic nature, except we have many more shades of green. Many of our plants are non native so there is more diversity of color. The gray of my Hollyhock stalks seems to add a dimension of their own. Being tall they connect to the gray of the […]

I just read about square foot gardening. It’s a technique to increase crop yields. It involves making a ten foot square raised bed, dividing it into one foot squares, and then planting everything close together. They said that eliminating pathways allows for more produce production. That made me realize how much I enjoy my pathways. I wouldn’t give them up […]

My first attempt at gardening was trying to grow plants in a terrarium. I had caught two toads and wanted to keep them as pets. I got some small potted plants, rocks, sticks and sand and created a mini jungle. My garden today is like an overgrown terrarium. It’s home to frogs, snakes, lizards, mice, and birds. It’s teaming with […]

When the sun comes out on a cold December day all us garden geezers find time to sit. Photons are our friends, warming our aches and arthritic bones. I got two inches of compost covering the asparagus bed today, and with hay mulch surrounding it, it really looks like a bed. I’m not putting any hay mulch in the pathways […]