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:
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 [...]
Date: Thursday December 17, 2009 Planted in: Growing in the Greenhouse, Other, Perennials, Seasonal Gardening Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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I don’t think anything was killed. The electricity blinked for a second last night while I was sleeping, causing the safety switch on my heater to trip. The temperature in the greenhouse was 30 degrees F this morning. Not what I wanted to wake up to. All I could do was turn on the heater and [...]
Date: Wednesday December 16, 2009 Planted in: Growing in the Greenhouse, Perennials Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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I decided to try my hand at growing agapanthus from seed. I didn’t read any advice about growing them, lest I be disappointed in my own efforts. I sowed the seed about six weeks ago, and I’m just now starting to see germination. Of eighteen pots, I have four sprouting.
I nearly gave up on them. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
