Elli Gardens - And You Can, Too!

Elli picks up seedlings for her 2010 garden.

Elli’s Forget-Me-Nots return for another year!

On Friday my man and his friend filled about 14 15″ black plastic gardening pots with beautiful compost soil from the bottom of a 15-year-old horse farm manure pile. The dirt is brown and lovely and rich and doesn’t smell nasty at all.
So yesterday I fulfilled my womanly duties by mixing the new soil with [...]

My new dirt has arrived! I’m filled with excitement at putting my plants into better soil and trepidation at the amount of work ahead.
What’s wrong with the dirt at hand? Well, after much discussion with my gardening friends, we’ve determined that the “garden soil” and “organic enhancement” I purchased to house my lovelies in [...]