Mary and I finished building a raised garden bed in our yard and planted some vegetable seeds. Some of them are just starting to sprout.
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Tag Archives: plants
A Yard For A Garden
Now that we have a little yard, Mary and I have been waiting for it to be nice enough to start a garden. Neither of us have much experience with it, but we’re excited to maybe try a few of these ideas in our little yard space.
Vertical Pallet Garden from Home DIT
Pallet Compost from Curbly
Hanging Planter from Gypsy River
Raised Flower Bed from Garden Design
Trevor
Artist Love: Michelle Morin
I recently fell in love with the delightful work of Michelle Morin. She paints watercolors of plants and animals. You can purchase prints from her etsy shop.
Mary
Weekend Project: Stamped Garden Markers
This holiday weekend I picked up a few plants for our back porch. I didn’t want to leave the plastic garden markers in the pots because they are quite an eyesore. However, I wanted to be able to identify which plant was which for watering purposes. I decided to make hand stamped garden markers out of popsicle sticks and the stamp we used to make our business cards.
I’m quite pleased with the results.
Mary
Urban Gardening
Spring is just around the corner. I bought some oregano and rosemary plants at Whole Foods yesterday and repotted them this morning. Each year I start an herb garden and it’s never a great success, but I do hope one day to be able to grow some of my own food. I found a few neat DIY apartment gardening projects from around the web. You never know, maybe I’ll be so inspired that I become a master gardener. One can dream.
Pallet Garden Tutorial from Life on the Balcony
Mason Jar Wall Planter from Not Just a Housewife
A shoe organizer upcycled into a vertical vegetable garden from Instructables
Maybe I just need to read up on my Backyard Skills. I love the clean, high graphic design of this DIY handbook from The Ecology Center.
Mary
Monday Photo Safari: Something Green
We’re beginning a photo assignment where each week we’re going to choose a theme for a photo and display the different findings here. Our first week’s theme was “something green” and here are the results:
from Detroit, Michigan
from Tokyo, Japan
from St. Louis, Missouri
Next week, the theme is “French,” so if you take any French-themed photos, please submit them to whatgoodcrafts@gmail.com by Sunday, August 21 to have them posted on our blog!
Trevor
