Karl's Garden Blog

If you need me, I’ll be the crazy guy in the park shoveling dead leaves and sticks into five gallon buckets and putting them in his trunk.
No, I’m not kidding, unfortunately. I live in a new housing community. It’s three years old. There are no trees. I use a recycling/mulching lawnmower. The only thing [...]

It’s no news to anyone that I’m lusting over a home of my own. It fills my dreams, it calls to me, it keeps my budget in line. And the hippie eco nerd in me REALLY wants to do something like a green driveway. On the other hand, the motorcyclist and car nerd in me [...]

Wow! What a weekend I had. I busted my ass to get the garden enclosed, and it paid off. Yay! I can have a life again and can go do things on weekends with other people!
Over the past week, I finished mixing the dirt. The total toll was about 2 cubic yards of sand [...]

I was just about to start asking around for some freecycled plastic nursery pots to transplant seedlings into, and then I stumbled upon an article on how to make your own seed pots from old newspaper…
Now to get my hands on a bunch of copies of the Battalion. I used to only use it [...]

‘Till? No, not until. Till. As in, mix. As in, mixing the compost with the loam that was delivered by the garden center. My arms are noodles and I still have another cubic yard or so in the driveway.

First, before I get into details, housekeeping … JD at Get Rich Slowly has posted his January [...]

Last weekend, I loaded up the Accord at Home Depot and put together a garden, which a friend and I filled half full of composted horse manure that we got for free from a local farmer. The bed is sitting on clay subsoil, so there’s no digging down or turning the soil or anything — [...]