Monthly Archives: December 2010

Edible Landscaping

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Author Rosalind Creasy creates gardens that celebrate the beauty of edible plants. They are colorful, organic and bountiful. The fruits, vegetables and herbs become gorgeous plates of healthy and delicious food for body and soul. Rosalind Creasy Back in the 1970s, when Rosalind Creasy coined the term "edible landscaping," home gardens looked a lot different than they do today. Flowers and vegetables were never allowed to mix. Everyone tended to plant the same varieties of plants (red Read more [...]

The Value of Hedges

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By late autumn the garden is fading fast and most herbaceous plants have all but disappeared from the landscape. In my perennial gardens, this means that means most of the visual interest has disappeared as well. By late autumn the garden is fading fast and most herbaceous plants have all but disappeared from the landscape. In my perennial gardens, this means that means most of the visual interest has disappeared as well. That wouldn't be the case if I had some hedges. A recent trip Read more [...]

Sweet Grow Beds

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We recently shared our great results about growing sweet potatoes in the Grow Bags. What about raised beds? What about extra-deep raised beds? We planted three Grow Beds. Each was filled with a blend of 70 percent container mix, 20 percent topsoil and 10 percent compost. To determine if a deeper planting area would yield more tubers, we made one of the beds twice as deep as the other two by stacking two 10-inch beds. Three rooted sweet potato slips were planted into each bed. Harvesting Read more [...]

Shredded Leaves Insulate

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Mother Nature has provided the perfect way to protect plants from winter cold: a thick blanket of leaves. But unfortunately, leaves rarely fall where they're needed. It's the delphinium, roses and hydrangeas that need to be blanketed in leaves, not the lawn. The delphinium beds, protected with a layer of leaves, anchored down with Shade Netting. Shredding leaves with the Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder. Winter is hard on gardeners, but it can be deadly to plants. Extreme cold can kill Read more [...]