Tag Archives: Compost
How to Use Compost
This is a follow-up blog to my previous titled “Composting” so if you have not read it, click the link because this is an area that requires more than one page. Composting has many different sides to it, there are the composters, the vessel used to create compost, composters, the people who make their own …
Composting
After a rather heated (mostly tongue in cheek) conversation on a discussion board about whether people should participate in the City Of Austin’s new composting program I was inspired to write yet another blog on why I believe it is so incredibly important to compost, use compost, make or buy compost, just to compost…getting the drift? Seriously though, …
Staging Your Landscape to Sell Your Home
While the market can fluctuate from year to year and some months are better than others for selling, there are certain things that could allow you to get a higher return on the sale of your home. Staging your landscape to sell your home is one of them. A home that has a desirable landscape is going …
Edible Gardens…Delicious!
Square Foot gardeningWhile there are a lot of followers of my blog and in some cases in other parts of the country, unless you have gone through a Texas Summer, you cannot imagine the challenges of a Texas garden. This past year has been no exception. With record heat, drought and the threat of another …
Lisa’s 5 Basic Rules of a Successful Gardener
With the depressing last blog I posted, with impeding doom and drought just shy of the locusts invading Austin, I thought at least a few solutions were in order. I have 5 basic rules to becoming a succesful garden and I have seen them work for over 20 years. After a recent trip for over …