2012 USF Botanical Gardens Spring Festival
Spring is for plant shows! In our area, the University of South Florida Botanical Gardens have their Spring Festival. This year’s event is April 14th and 15th. If you are within easy driving distance to USF, this show is worth the drive. See you there!
Gardening Time Savers
I don’t know about you, but around here, the longer the days, the more things we put on our gardening “to do” list. This is the time of year when those winter ideas become real projects. I enjoy the planning, planting and landscaping. However, I think you would agree that one can overload the brain [...]
Guidance for gardeners: avoiding injury and discomfort
Sore knees, aching muscles, callused hands, sunburned neck. Sound familiar? As we get older, a fun day of playing in the dirt can lead to pain and discomfort the following day. But when enjoying a day in the yard, we sometimes ignore that little voice in our head that is telling us to take a [...]
Fail-proof Gardening Tips
It’s one thing to buy a few random plants when shopping for other things at Lowe’s or Home Depot. It’s quite another matter when you are planning to plant a new garden. I found a gardening website that I think will be useful to many of us. BloomIQ.com is the name of the site. They have [...]
Secrets for a lush, eco-friendly lawn and landscape
In our area, grass is the common answer to landscaping one’s yard. Not many plants can cover large areas of bare ground so quickly, aside from the weeds. For those of you that are looking to keep that green grass growing for summer fun, here is an article that I found which offers some eco-friendly [...]
Garden season preparation: Ready tools for the growing season
One of the purposes of Gardening On A Dime is to give you economical tips and hints to get you started down the gardening path. Tools are bought, plants are planted, and then what? Care for those tools is often forgotten as they are laid aside until the next time they are needed. Read these tips and take care of those [...]
‘Veggin’ out is so in: Tips for starting your own veggie garden
Are those packs of vegetables at the nursery saying to you… “buy me, grow me”? Is the high price of red peppers at your grocery making you wish you could grow your own peppers? Are you wanting to get your younger kids outdoors to get them more involved with nature? If so, here are some tips [...]
Growing Italian Delights
If you are new to gardening and have never tried to raise your own Italian foods, give this a try. It’s pretty cool when you get to mix up your harvest into a tasty pasta sauce. (Family Features) – Fresh veggie pizza, spaghetti sauce, and pasta with pesto sauce-sound incredible? You’ll be happy to know [...]
Homemade Organic Rose Food
I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. - Roland A. Browne. I have been searching for natural methods to care for our rose bush. Not really a bush. It’s a Don Juan climbing rose. I’m looking because I feel a bit guilty for how I have cared [...]
