Blog Posts - Gardening

Hello friends!  And, yay, it’s finally Fall!  This past week, I’ve been doing some early Fall decorating with hydrangeas.  When September hits, I usually grab my stash of store-bought pumpkins and acorns. But, since there’s not...

It's rainy season and in my past experience it is easier to weed out a garden when the soil is still wet.  So I have decided last week to start the clean up and started to remove weeds that have actually grown in some areas of our backyard. Uproo...

There are many benefits with regards to leading an eco-friendly life, the most important of which is the fact that it can help you reduce your carbon footprint and protect the environment. In addition, many steps that you can take towards being eco-f...

Anyone can plant a seed, but not everyone can grow a garden.  Why?  Because there isn’t a monster, insect with disease dripping fants trying to rip that seed out of your hand when you’re trying to plant it.  There is, … Continue...

Swap the commercial herbicides that are toxic and expensive for a homemade herbicide that is a safer and healthier alternative. These are affordable and less toxic and you probably have them on hand. Homemade Herbicide Alternatives If you’...

Hello World!  This week is looking to be a busy one around The Dedicated House.  I’m still painting Little Dedicated’s room and am hoping to get some spray painting done; that is if the weather is nice.  I’m also hopi...

With Ironstate Development Company’s Urby Staten Island project, “they had to go big or go home,” according to a local resident quoted in the New York Times.  This community-centric apartment complex feels like part of a grand plan with its ur...

Since I'm not quite divorced from politics I thought I'd share what I've been learning because we're on a fixed income.  No social security increase because there is no inflation is a crock.  Don't the economists ever buy food or gas or pay...

Way in the back of my yard is a concord grape vine. I didn't plant it but I did inherit it when we bought the house some years ago. That little vine produced its best crop this year; almost 5 cups of concord grapes. That is a new record! :)  Because...

As I was checking on the status of my potted fruit and vegetable plants I was surprised when I saw my Chinese Radish, I sow these seeds on the 22nd of this month and two days after, it has started to germinate.. Radish seeds have started to Germi...

Starting a lawn from scratch using seed is the least expensive way to transform your home or garden. Here’s how to plant a lawn from seeds.  How to plant a lawn from seeds As you may remember from this article I decided to grow my own lawn...

My family loves these beans stir fried in little oil with onions, tomatoes and garlic. I highly recommend trying to grow these beans in your garden as they are very productive and resistant to pests. Asparagus beans are plants which produce slender,...

8 Summer Gardening Hacks 8 Summer Gardening Hacks that will help you keep your garden thriving during the hot summer months. When summer is in full swing, everyone’s ready to spend some quality time in their garden! These gardening hacks will help...

    There it is.  The dreaded powdery mildew.  Be GONE! Be GONE I say!     That didn’t work at all. Although it might have worked on my favourite jeans because I can’t find those.   Since jumping up … Cont...

Hello World!  Today was the first stay of school for Little Dedicated.  She is a bit tired, but overall it was a successful day.  I’m happy we are back on a schedule!  I hope your weekend was splendid.  I’m excite...

Who says you can’t turn an old ice cream maker into a cool rustic wooden planter? In my World’s Longest Yard Sale Adventures I showed you an old ice cream maker that I bought for 50 cents (spoiler alert, there were no adventures). When...

As I was checking the vegetable seeds that I was able to buy and collect months ago, it came into my attention a package that I bought in a local gardening shop in our place, this one package of Chinese Radish. Looking at the expiration date, it is...

Since I started gardening last year, one of the things that I really would like to have is my own compost bin, buying one however can cost more that could exceed my monthly  budget for gardening. An alternative then is to  build my own, the proble...

    Dear Florida Weave, You suck.  Dear Tomato Cage, You suck.  Dear Weird Spiraly Wire thing, You super-suck. Dear String Method, I love you with all of my heart.  You do not, nor will you ever suck. Sincerely, Everyone … Continue...

According to wikipedia Image From Wikipedia Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine.  It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual stems abo...

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