TGGR Progress Report: End of Year 2020
This year’s progress in The Great Garden Renovation (a/k/a/ TGGR) can be summed up in only two words: “not much.” …
Category Archives: The Great Garden Renovation
The (Not Quite) Best-Laid Planting Plan
Have you ever made such a stunningly stupid, colossally clueless and yet breathtakingly basic planting-plan error that the only thing …
On the Naming of Garden Beds
Sooner or later, most gardeners who have more than a couple of planting areas will reach a point where referring …
‘Blank Slates’: Too Much of a Good Thing??
Pick up most gardening books and you are likely to see the proverbial ‘blank slate’ touted somewhere in its pages …
Waste Not, Want Not?
Gardeners are nothing if not resourceful, and unless one has money to burn (hint: Not me!) we always have that …
TGGR Progress Report: Wrapping Up the Projects
Yes, despite the time of year I really did mean to type ‘projects’ instead of ‘presents’ … although being able …
TGGR, July and August 2018: Incremental Progress
Our hot humid weather stands in stark contrast to the glacial pace of my attempts to move forward on the …
Old Shed, New Shed
Before embarking on any Money Pit remodeling tales of woe, I’d like to share a tale that had a happy …
