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What I'm All About:

I grow cut flowers for brides and florists, but I also blog my gardening adventures as a commercial and home gardener. I primarily grow perennials in an effort to create a habitat for bees, birds, butterflies and other critters, but I also grow some favorite annuals every year from purchased or saved seed (or both!). In these pages you will find a mixture of advice, rants, growing information for flowers and herbs, links and resources, photo albums, and everything in between.

I live in Batesville, Mississippi, Zone 7B, so what I do in my garden may not necessarily work for you.

If there is anything you would like to see added to the site or have any gardening questions you think I can answer, please feel free to send me an e-mail. See my About me page for more info.

Recent Posts:

  • Box O’ Salad
    Date: Saturday December 19, 2009 Planted in: Experiments, Growing in the Greenhouse, Seasonal Gardening, Vegetables Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    I never have enough soil.  I’ve bought bags, bought it by the yard and even made my own and I never have enough.  Since I don’t till, I have to rely heavily on compost for lasagna garden beds.  It tends to run out, even when I steal leaves from the side of the road.
    I used [...]

  • Lettuce Experiment, Part II, and Greenhouse Pics
    Date: Thursday December 3, 2009 Planted in: Container Gardening, Experiments, Growing in the Greenhouse, Square Foot Gardening, Vegetables Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    I managed to drag the storage box out to the greenhouse and fill it with soil. Prepare yourselves…

    A box of soil! The box measures approximately 39″x22″ by 6″ deep.  If you missed the earlier post explaining my project, here it is.  I decided to nix the tomatoes and cukes until I can get a bigger [...]

  • Square Foot Gardening, In the Greenhouse, In a Plastic Storage Container
    Date: Wednesday December 2, 2009 Planted in: Container Gardening, Experiments, Growing in the Greenhouse, Square Foot Gardening, Vegetables Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    I’ve decided to grow all of my lettuce, carrots, radishes and some tomatoes and cukes this winter – all in the greenhouse and in a discarded underbed storage box. The tomatoes and cukes will be in large pots with tomato cages for support, but the rest will be grown in a plastic storage container. [...]