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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2d ago

Strawberries as a ground cover in Helen’s Haven

Everybody loves strawberries, right?  Vine ripened fruit, at the peak of freshness, knows no substitute.  During a recent conversation with a friend, I mentioned putting in 40 ever-blooming strawberry plants.  She remarked, “I hope you plan to preserve because that’s a lot of strawberries.”  But in
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 1W ago

The Love Shack

It’s the Love Shack.  The long awaited quintessential garden house at Helen’s Haven now has a roof.  The Love Shack is the completion of my garden design, my garden desires, my garden dreams. No longer a mere garden house, though, but a Love Shack.  How could it be anything less?   Nice on it’s own,
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 1W ago

Helen’s Haven week maintenance for May–Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day, y’all.  I spent mine with my three kids. First breakfast in bed, then garden maintenance with my 11 year old son helping me mulch.  Then dinner consisting of  hot dogs and s’mores on the grill in front of the newly roofed Garden House.  It really doesn’t get any better than that.
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 1W ago

Helen’s Haven week maintenance for May–Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day, y’all.  I spent mine with my three kids. First breakfast in bed, then garden maintenance with my 11 year old son helping me mulch.  Then dinner consisting of  hot dogs and s’mores on the grill in front of the newly roofed Garden House.  It really doesn’t get any better than that.
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2W ago

Gardening With Confidence® Tip of the Day–Save your water, add rain barrels

Save your water. Add rain barrels. An inch of rain from a 1,000 square foot roof will give you 602 gallons of water. Figure the water will run down the spouts evenly from your home. If you have four drain spouts, divide 600 by 4 to get 150 gallons per drain spout. This will flow [...]
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2W ago

Gardening With Confidence® Tip of the Day–Plan to water wisely this season

Plan to water wisely this season. Capture the rain water from your roof (at the drain spouts) to use at later time by employing a large harvester such as this one.  This type of container is abundant on Craig’s list since they are commonly used in the food industry, and because of sanitation, they o
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2W ago

Gardening With Confidence® Tip of the Day-Water the ground, not the plants

Water the ground, not the plants. Use an end-of-hose sprayer, drip irrigation, soaker hoses, or watering can – saturate the ground and leave the leaves dry. Improve potting soil mixes. Incorporate water-retaining polymers into the potting soil for your container gardens. They really make a differenc
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2W ago

Gardening With Confidence® Tip of the Day–Let lawn go dormant in the absence of rain

Reduce lawn size or switch to low maintenance grasses. Consider going Dormant for the Moment. Choose not to water thirsty grasses; let them go dormant. They will return when the rains return.               Helen  Yoest is a writer and speaker through her business Gardening with Confidence ®. Follow
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2W ago

Helen’s Haven weekly maintenance during May

To say I love orange would be an understatement.  I attended the Historic Oakwood 23rd annual tea and tour yesterday, and my daughter snapped this photo for me…because I do love orange. I was fortunate enough to attend the 2nd annual Garden2Blog event at The Moss Mountain Farm hosted by P. Allen Smi
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Gardening With Confidence™ · 2W ago

Helen’s Haven weekly maintenance during May

To say I love orange would be an understatement.  I attended the Historic Oakwood 23rd annual tea and tour yesterday, and my daughter snapped this photo for me…because I do love orange. I was fortunate enough to attend the 2nd annual Garden2Blog event at The Moss Mountain Farm hosted by P. Allen Smi
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