Phoebe Cole-Smith raises chickens, produces maple syrup and hosts farm-to-table dinners at her home in Weston.
For Plant Care Instructions: www.mygardenchannel.com White Lilac Cuttings, choose your quantity. We will not replace anything that does not survive because we are not growing them. We are 100% successful at rooting them here on the farm. It takes a little care to get them to root and then planted. If you are a novice, I recommend you buy a potted plant that is established. We do not guarantee our cuttings once they leave our farm. They are shipped alive and packaged well for you to succeed in rooting them. Thank you for considering our plants and have a blessed day!
Hochbeete aus Beton von Betonzaun Wetel sind besonders langlebig, pflegeleicht, witterungsbeständig und wachstumsfördernd.
Oatman Architects designed this gorgeous Santa Barbara Spanish revival house overlooking the ocean in Newport Coast, California.
Explore the gardens of this Maryland estate
Everyone wants the garden plots or beds in the garden to look aesthetically pleasing. The beds should be comfortable and pleasing to the eye. For this, it is worth observing several conditions. First of all, you need
Do you want your flowers to look even more stunning than they already do? I'll show you creative and upcycled flower container ideas.
When it comes to Hamptons style, interior and exterior, there’s perhaps no better natural inspiration than the hydrangea. Photo - @anantucketsummer Photo - left and right: @anantucketsummer. There’s something that’s both welcoming and breathtaking about arriving at a classic Hamptons or Cape Code-style home and seeing a grand doorway flanked on either side by voluminous hydrangea bushes.
Use cold frames to keep your vegetable garden going nearly year-round, even through freezing weather.
Outside diameter of the garden is approximately 12 ft x 8 ft. Planting space is approximately 11 ft x 7 ft. We used the cinder blocks (ugly, but functional, and not too noticeable from the house) for cost and expediency. I wanted to get the garden planted and didn’t want to spend time building something from wood. Also didn’t want to use treated lumber. When we did the blocks we thought that we’d replace the blocks “next year” but 5 years later have decided it works fine the way it is. The holes in the blocks are filled with pea-gravel. Originally planting herbs and flowers in the holes, but that interfered with the fencing. The pea gravel helps keep the fence posts in place. You have to fill them with something so the critters can’t get in to the garden area. The real beauty of this system is the removable fencing. Each panel is approximately 4 feet long and 25” high. (This was determined by the height of the chicken wire.) The tubes are ½” PVC pipe and the fencing part is a metal chicken wire held on to the vertical pipes with cable ties. We tried plastic chicken ‘wire’ but the woodchuck ate through it. Below shows the bottom of the fencing. There’s a larger diameter tube set in the pea-gravel that the end of the fence telescopes in to. You can’t fill the cinder block holes to the top because then the gravel falls in the tube. Below you can see a close up of the tubing, wire, and cable ties. As far as filling the raised bed with soil, I laid a double layer of newspaper on the lawn before placing the cinder blocks down. I wet the newspaper, then filled it with lots and lots of "Mel's Mix". You can find the recipe at http://www.squarefootgardening.org. I mixed the ingredients on a large tarp before dumping them into the raised bed. I watered the soil as I added it to the garden. I added a row of 12" paving blocks down the middle of the garden to allow access to all plants. I roughly adhere to the Square Foot method of gardening. In my little garden this year I have 2 zucchini plants, 2 pickling cucumber plants, 2 slicing cucumber plants, a dozen leeks, a couple dozen onions, a dozen or so garlic plants, 4 celery plants, numerous green bean plants, 4 broccoli plants, 2 brussels sprouts plants, 2 green cabbages, 2 red cabbages, 7 peppers (bell, anaheim, jalepeno), 8 tomato plants (rutgers, roma, early girl), 1 watermelon plant and some zinnias. Radishes and lettuce are done. That's a lot crammed into a little space, but it works year after year. I do rotate my crops, never growing things in the same place 2 years in a row. I have carrots and cherry tomatoes growing in containers near the house, and a wonderful herb spiral, too. (It's grown up a lot--this photo is from May.)
Come learn how to prolong your leafy green season and harvests with the Cut and Come Again method, used to harvest kale, swiss chard, lettuce, and more!
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My cottage garden was photographed for a national magazine. I thought it would be fun to share the day with you and show you some behind-the-scenes shots of my summer garden magazine photoshoot!
