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Yard & Garden
Hi! Once the weather gets nice, I love to tinker in my yard and garden! I've only started gardening recently, so I am a bit of a newbie, but I still love it! These are a few of my recently outdoor projects. I know that I will be adding more projects to this page soon! Front Yard Planting Bed I extended the planting bed in my front yard earlier this spring -- check out everything I did in this post, which has tips on how to start a garden bed and photos of the beautiful flowers in my bed! Plus, read how to protect your spring flower beds from frost. My June Garden Spring is one of the Continue reading...
Fall Container Gardens
Now that fall is here, I have been looking for ways to continue gardening, since I had so much fun with my new southern-exposure flower garden over the summer. My daughters and I found a great way to garden in the fall and to add some autumn color to a home's outdoor decor -- fall container gardens! Earlier this month, I signed up for a fall container garden workshop at what has become my favorite garden store, Timothy's Center for Gardening in Robbinsville, NJ. I was going to go by myself or take a friend along, but instead, I took my twin 10-year-old daughters, and we had a Continue reading...
August Garden Tour with Mammoth Sunflowers
As August nears its end, I have been relishing the new sunny perennial garden that I planted this summer along the southern side of my home. I will be sad when the summer garden season comes to an end! I have especially been enjoying the mammoth sunflowers that are blooming in the center of my new summer garden. The smallest of my sunflowers is about 5 feet high, but I think the tallest is at least 10 feet high! The first of my sunflowers began blooming about a week or so this August, while one sunflower -- the tallest -- just started blooming today. I totally am going to be planting some Continue reading...
A Sunny Perennial Flower Garden
Ever since we moved into our home about 10 years ago, I've wanted to plant a a sunny perennial flower garden on the south side of my home. That side gets plenty of sun, offers some privacy and sits just under our living room window. If I planted a flower garden there, I figured, my family and I could just look out the window and look at the beautiful flowers. Several years went past, and my sunny perennial flower garden didn't materialize. After all, starting a new garden is a lot of work! There is sod to be removed, soil to amend/improve, flowers to plant and mulch to be applied. I've Continue reading...
Curbside Garden
The weather has been hot here in New Jersey, but that hasn't stopped me from doing some gardening! The other day I got it in my head to beautify the strip of grass that lies between the curb and the sidewalk at the front of the house. I mean, what is that little bit of grass for, anyway? It's a pain to mow and all that really grows there are weeds and crabgrass. Not pretty. So while the kids were playing on the Slip N Slide the other day, I got out a shovel and removed the grass -- I was surprised at how quickly the grass came up. I then planted a flat of impatiens that I Continue reading...
Starting a Flower Garden
Hi, everyone! Hope you are enjoying your spring! Here at Mom Home Guide, I've been busy. The weather has been so nice, that I've been spending much of my time outdoors working on the yard. I finally got started on a flower garden that I've wanted for years! Starting a Flower Garden for the First Time On the southern side of my house is a swath of lawn that separates my family's house from our neighbor's home. That strip of lawn drives my husband (and probably my neighbor, too) crazy because it constantly fills up with weeds! I've always thought that placing a garden on that side of the Continue reading...
DIY Salsa Container Garden
Would you love to grow fresh ingredients for homemade salsa, but don’t have much room for a garden? Then a DIY container salsa garden might be just the thing for you! I planted a “salsa” container garden a few weeks ago, and thanks to frequent watering, my salsa garden has been doing well! To start my container garden, all I did was buy a big potted patio tomato plant. To that plant, I transplanted a cilantro plant and a parsley plant. I love how my mini salsa container garden adds some greenery to my home's backyard patio. While I didn’t add them to my pot, you could add jalapeno Continue reading...
Springtime Gardening
The weather was so nice here in New Jersey yesterday, that I just had to get outside and start some springtime gardening! The first thing I did was prep one of my backyard's raised garden beds to plant some peas. We hadn't planted our peas until yesterday because until then, we've had unseasonably cool weather, so I was afraid to plant them! To prep the raised garden, I weeded, loosened up the existing soil with a sturdy rake and added a layer of new topsoil from the garden store. When the kids got home, we dug a few 2-inch trenches for the peas, and planted our peas! From some Continue reading...
An Easter Garden Flag Craft
I am always astonished at how much it costs to purchase small decorative garden flags -- most cost at least $10. So recently, I've taken to making my own garden flags. I don't even have to travel to a local craft store to get the fabric -- I've been purchasing fabric for my garden flags from my local Walmart, which has a fabric section. So I thought it would be fun to do an Easter garden flag craft. The inexpensive garden flag that I crafted for my home's front garden. Most recently, I made a leprechaun garden flag. (The fabric from that flag came from Joann.com.) But now that Easter is Continue reading...
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