Waterwise Gardening - a book review
Waterwise Gardening: Everything You Need To Know About Efficient Watering to Grow a Healthy Yard by Richard Restuccia Published by Rizzoli, 2025 I would guess that watering is the major issue that most gardeners grapple with, especially novice gardeners. I know from working at the nursery that the majority of questions and issues we get stem from either watering too much or not watering enough. Many people in our area have sprinkler systems and I'm sure that can be a good thing if used properly but I feel that they primarily keep the lawns green but fall short for landscape plants. Especially when it comes to trees and larger plants, the timing and amounts are not satisfactory for many plants. I often hear people say that their sprinklers are set to come on every day - yikes! And there are those who did not water because it "rained" when it actually drizzled. The best thing to do in this situation is to have a xeric garden but that would mean sacrificing favorite plant...
Wow! Wow! That is quite the garden!
ReplyDeleteHow original, this would especially be useful for folks living in urban areas with small lots.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great garden! I love gardens that recycle and show new ways of using things. I use cat litter boxes when i make chicken poo tea for my garden. They work perfect!
ReplyDeleteHow fun to visit a blogger's garden, and so near you too, Phillip! Lots of good ideas here, love the trellises and that compost contraption is to die for!
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What a great idea for recycling those buckets. That is some kind of compost outfit. The auger to stir the compost is quite the contraption. I will have the Beatles song "hey Jude" in my head all day now. What a beautiful dog.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Phillip. Jeff has some great ideas. I will follow your link and visit his site. I'm sure I can learn a lot, especially about trellising. Cherokee Purples are my favorite too, really great taste and an unusual color.
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Phillip,
ReplyDeleteHello! I stopped by to see your photos of Jeff's Engineered Garden. You have some nice garden posts too. I'll be back. Have a good week.
I enjoyed your tour of Jeff's garden. Some very good ideas.
ReplyDeleteYou are the first one I've heard of speaking about butter peas. I love them but can't find the seeds. Will have to research further.
What a talented, imaginative and industrious gardener! Boggles my mind!
ReplyDeleteOh, you're eating well. It's healthy stuff. I think you already have a membership to that gym called a garden! :-)
Phillip, i'm glad you and your friends enjoyed it! It was alot of fun, but sure was hot...whew...
ReplyDeleteI thought that garden looked familiar. haha. That EG is definitely a crafty one. It's interesting to see his garden from someone else's view.
ReplyDeleteHow inspiring. I am getting my "feet wet" with the veggie gardening this year. I will be visiting this blog to get ideas for next yr!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great garden full of great ideas! I love all that space he has to grow his vegetables.
ReplyDeleteHi! Stopping over from EG's blog. It's nice to have another's view of his garden. I have to say, I'm a little jealous you were able to see it in person...
ReplyDeleteThe man's a genius!
ReplyDeleteI've just be checking the construction posts on his blog.
He's really an expert at what he does isn't he? I grow 'Cherokee Purple'. It is wonderful and pretty easy going. The squash bugs got all my squash. I wonder what he does to stop them.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteI've always admired EG for his wonderful swp/swcs! He's simply awesome is all I can say!
ReplyDeleteTidy, intensive vegetable gardens rock. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet Alabama gets hot enough for tomato volunteers to produce fruit. They're just start to come up in my garden right now, but there won't be enough regular heat to ripen any fruit, so they're weeds.