With the weather about to cool way down, I didn’t want to wait to put together some mixed holiday containers. It’s easy to spend a lot on items like packaged spruce tips, curly willow sticks, red twig dogwood and even faux berries and poinsettias, but you can also do a mixed container for very little money. For this mixed container,…
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It’s easy to spend a lot of money on holiday decorations for inside and outside of your home — but it can also be done on the cheap, and my goal this holiday season is to come up with a few nice decorations that don’t cost much money, such as this holiday pot. This is the ultimate cheap holiday pot:…
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This morning’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune brings news of the latest must-have item for survivalists. For $149, you can buy a canister filled with enough heirloom seeds to plant an acre of vegetables, enough to feed a small group of people for a year. Several authors of a decidedly non-survivalist bent have written books on how to grow your own and the…
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I have been so busy lately with work, closing up the garden, teaching a class at Carleton College and what not that I have neglected some of my blogging duties. And, there are two important bits of news that I want to get out. First, the November/December issue of Northern Gardener is on the newsstands now. The issue has a…
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Let’s face it: Not everyone looks good in a cap. The young lady at right, for instance, has always looked good in hats. Sadly, I don’t look that good in caps, and so only wear them while gardening. But I think about caps while cleaning up the garden in fall, and today was a perfect day for garden cleanup in…
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