Compost Rules!

Last week I ordered a compost bin from Home Depot. It showed up yesterday and we put it together last night. Yay for compost!

I've always been a little intimidated by the rules for making my own compost. If you look around the internet you can find some really complicated instruction for owning a compost bin. This is so sad. It makes the average gardener feel that they need a degree in horticulture to even try it. So, me being me, I jumped in with both feet and bought my own bin. So far I've added some old pansies that I pulled up last week, a few kitchen scraps, and some sod that we pulled up over the weekend. I'll keep you posted as to how easy/hard this whole compost adventure really is.


I just thought this pepper was really cool...

Hot Summer Days in the Garden

Not too much to report from the garden. It's hot and humid, and the plants are loving it! We are on the brink of a veggie explosion...I can't wait.

8X8

There's a challenge right now among Bloggers called 8X8. Go to your computer and under My Pictures choose the 8th photo in the 8th file...Here's mine!


This is a photo of Dana and Allen at the Prettyboy Resevoir tree planting a couple of years ago. We had a great time that day!

Where's the Garden?

I must say that I do like the cable channel HGTV. It's fun to see people transform their homes from dumpy to divine. I also love the voyeuristic shows on house-hunting...these are fun shows...however...you know what's coming...where's the gardening on Home and GARDEN TV? There's several shows where they do some expensive landscaping, or paint the front of someone's house and add a new mailbox. Is this gardening? No. In fact, HGTV has only one gardening show, as far as I can tell. It's Gardening By the Yard. This is a fun and informative show on the act of gardening...it comes on once a week at 6:30 in the morning...so what's a gardener to do?

Enter Create TV. This is a PBS channel that has programming on cooking, travel, home improvement, and GARDENING. I haven't seen all of the shows yet, but Create TV's website boasts such shows as Cultivating Life, GardenSMART, Gardenstory: Inspiring Spaces Healing Places, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, Smart Gardening, and The Victory Garden. It appears they show one gardening show each day, repeating four or five times over a 24 hour period. So, if you are looking for some REAL gardening shows, not landscaping shows, flip the channel over to Create TV. And when your friends ask if you watched last night's episode of the Bachelorette, you can hold your head up high and proudly announce that no, in fact you were watching something really good on PBS...

UPDATE: Two days after I posted this, Cox Cable elected to stop carrying Create TV. Crap...