Pinterest Monday ~ 2/11/13


Hello Friends,
Today's Pinterest Monday revolves around outdoor living.
  We are currently renting the house we live in so I can't do as much to it as I would like. There are however,  a few things I plan to do anyway since we have decided to sign an additional 3 year lease. This will be our HOME through June of 2016. Just 'cause we're renting doesn't mean I don't want it to look as nice as it can. The yard has a lot of huge trees and the back yard is almost all dirt.... :-(  so I have my work cut out for me.
  I also plan to do some container veggie gardening this year since there is nothing like a home grown tomato....
Without further ado....
Shade garden
I LOVE hostas & this house is almost all shade

Hydrangeas..Pistachio HydrangeaHydrangeas are among my favorites and they work well in shade
Hardy Geranium "Hardy Blues"
Hardy Geraniums in blue & white
pruning crepe myrtles
How to properly prune a Crepe Myrtle

How to have an awesome pepper harvest. Spray the plant with Epsom salts (1 teaspoon dissolved in a spray bottle of warm water (about 4 cups). That gives the pepper plant a boost of magnesium that is required at flowering time to produce fruit. Spray them again 10 days later and in a few weeks, our expert friends report, you will have more peppers than you can eat.
I want oooodles of peppers...
Vertical gardening
Now THAT is a great way to garden in a small space
129 cukes per plant --Have to try this.
The article said 129 cucumbers from a single plant!
Here's a really cool idea for garden art.
Some very cool garden art from old cutlery.                                      








Flatware garden ornaments.  Cool!















Th garden globe is made from two hanging baskets wired together
Flowerball (2 metal plant hanging baskets).../

Comments

  1. my daughter and her husband will be renting for the next several years too, and they plan to do some container gardening. she wants some herbs. I can't wait til warm weather arrives to stay so we can get our garden started. we just moved the end of last summer to KY. we always have a wonderful garden, so we have to start all over :P love your ideas!

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