Urban Hoop Garden

I've seen these around when I'm driving and wondered what they called them and how they made them. Now I've found a video on it and wanted to post it here:

How to build an Urban Hoop Garden

Old Tires in the Garden

My husband actually has a couple of old tires out back as mini raised beds. He has summer squash in them.
I've just stumbled upon videos of other people using old tires for gardening:

Tire planting stand

How to cut a tire and make it into a garden pot
(tire sculptures in this one also)

How to make a Rubber Tire Flower Pot

Tire Garden Experiment
(lots of unique ideas in this one)

Gardening in Straw Bales

My husband grew some of the best peppers in straw bales last year.

Here's one "how to" for straw bale gardening:
Straw Bale Gardening: Start to Finish

Kale

"Kale is one of the most worthwhile crops you can grow. It is easy, undemanding, tolerant of heat, drought, wet, cold, and poor soil. It can be eaten at the small leaf stage in salads, mid-size leaves are good steamed, and large leaves can be chopped and stir fried or put into stews. One especially good dish is lentil stew with leeks and kale."

So says the this article on kale at Gardens on the Go located here:
Growing Kale

Here's the Farmer's Almanac on Kale:
Kale -- Farmer's Almanac

And this from The National Garden Association
Edible of the Month (from the Edible Landscaping section)

Zone Five

Yep, that's the zone I live in.
Here is a planting schedule for zone 5
Zone 5 Vegetable Planting
If you live in a different zone, you can look it up at the above linked site

Off-Grid Self-Watering Container Garden

This one looks interesting. I'm going to watch the rest of it and then find the two videos that were supposed to come before it:

Off-Grid Self-Watering Container Gardening System

Growing Pumpkins

This looks like the place to start learning about pumpkins:

Growing pumpkins

I really think that I want a pumpkin patch. I hear that deer leave them alone which might make them suitable for our  country property.

Companion Planting

This is something I'm still new at. Gardens Ablaze has three charts that can be reached by visiting their Companion Planting page:

Companion Planting

On the left side of the page, you can find, under related topics:

Companion Planting for Pest Control

Plants that Attract Beneficial Insects

and

Companion Planting for Better Yield

Whatever you are looking for, these places are a good place to start.

More Garden. Less Lawn

Some people like flowers:

Reducing Lawns with Small Gardens

Some people prefer Vegetables:

Some People Trading Lawns for Veggie Gardens

Then there's the edible landscape:

How to Create a Beautiful Edible Landscape

How about Hyssop?

Hyssop is another herb I'm interested in. I'm not sure which I will try first, Hyssop or Jasmine. But I'd really like to try one of them soon and the other, shortly afterwards:

Tips for Growing Hyssop

How to Grow Hyssop

How to Grow Hyssop (The Herb Gardener)

One Straw Revolution -- pdf

Here is the reason I have this blog. So that when I find thing I want to refer back to but don't want to put it in my already overwhelmed favorites list, I can put a link to it here and I will always be able to refer back to it when I have more time.

Here is a pdf of "One Straw Revolution":

One Straw Revolution

Vertical Gardening in Great Britain

I stumbled across this video on vertical gardening from different angles and thought it was interesting.

Vertical Gardening

Lasagna Gardening

I own two books on Lasagna Gardening. And I love them both. But I can't get my husband interested in it. I think it's just because it's too easy. I don't know. But here is one video on it building lasagna beds:

Lasagna garden

In her second video she wants to put top soil on her lasagna beds. She doesn't need to even though her gut tells her to. You see, it's just too easy.

Curious About Jasmine

The title says it all. Part of me would love to try to grow Jasmine. What can I say? I like fragrances. But I know nothing about Jasmine. Not even where you could buy it to grow it. But that's okay for now. I have a lot to learn about Jasmine before I try to my hand at growing it. I like to give special plants like this, a fighting chance in my garden.

A Grower's Guide to the Jasmine Plant

Bottle Tower

Some time in my life, I hope to be able to try this, even if it is just for fun and to see if it can truly be done:

Building a bottle tower for a container garden