I just received a little wooden box for five years working at Timberland Regional LibraryI had never intended to go this long without going back to school, but since I still don't know what I want to be When I Grow Up, I'm not really complaining. I have a house, a boy, a band, kittehs... life's pretty good. Bear that in mind, cause the rest of the ( Read more... )

On Friday, I picked up a great big order from Sound Native Plants, and lo, it was good ( Read more... )

You really need to read Bringing Nature Home by Douglas Tallamy. I'm thinking of buying several copies just so I can thrust them at people. (c'mon, even ursulav read it!).

Go go biodiversity!

Erik called before he came over for breakfast yesterday morning with words that were music to my ears -- "I'm putting on old pants in case you want to work in your yard ( Read more... )

On Monday, people are coming to replace the three front windows of my house. This is a totally new experience for me, since my parents did most of the work on their house themselves. Considering that none of us knew about aluminum siding OR aluminum windows (I have teh amazing metal house. Throw up horns here), though, my Dad suggested a totally ( Read more... )

This weekend I ripped up about three square yards of ivy, which hardly makes a dent in the invading ivy horde that beseiges my back yard. I have the creeping (b-dum ching!) suspicion that the sources of the ivy are in the neighbors' yards, so my task will never be done ( Read more... )

I've discovered that I really, really like pruning ( Read more... )

In the hour between getting off work and twilight, I went out to the back 40* and pruned one of the compost bins (pics later, but it's a wire enclosure with a full pelt of ivy). I wanted to clean it a bit before I put leaves in ( Read more... )

A week is not really enough vacation time to move into a new house, especially when one spends three days of it in a different city for a wedding*. I have cabinets to paint and boxes to unpack and leaves to rake and, worst of all, an old appartment to clean. It's beautifully sunny out and I want to be massacring helpless plant life pruning things ( Read more... )

I want to make raised garden beds out of corrugated metal. I like the idea of round ones (picture a two-foot chunk of culvert material planted in the ground) and normal-rectangular beds with the corrugations running vertically. It is of course, easy to find smallish pieces of corrugated metal...if you want the corrugations to run lengthwise ( ( Read more... )