John visits the gentleman farmer. Bob Hicks is an very young eighty something years old with a tremendous love for the land. He is a recently retired Atlanta attorney and lives in Marietta with his lovely wife Micheline. He also has a wonderful 300 and more acre farm on the Chatooga River right outside the [...]
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A Redneck Garden in August
Posted in coffee with bubba, garden techniques, raised vegetable garden, Visits to nice gardens, tagged "come set a spell" "sweet tea", Blue Lake beans, chow chow, raised bed vegetable garden, redneck garden, redneck story, vegetable garden in august on August 22, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A Redneck Garden in August Bud is proud to be a redneck. He grew up on a farm on Sand Mountain, Alabama and moved to town for work a number of years ago. One day I showed Bud some of my blog posts and he said, “Why don’t you show them folks a redneck garden?” [...]
Nathan and Rachel learn how to start a bonsai.
Posted in bonsai, garden techniques, pruning, tagged american boxwood bonsai, bonsai, boxwood, how to start a bonsai, juniper bonsai, Lavender Mountain Hardware, pruning as an art form, start your own bonsai on August 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
John the plantman gives lessons on “How to start a bonsai”
Build a wonderful garden sprinkler with pvc pipe and Rain Bird nozzles
Posted in garden techniques, plant and garden how to, tagged build sprinkler instructions, Rain Bird, Rain Bird spray nozzles, sprinkler with pvc pipe on August 1, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Building a portable spray sprinkler with pvc pipe and Rain Bird irrigation parts from Home Depot. Several years ago I got tired of buying garden sprinklers that just didn’t work. One day, while installing an underground sprinkler for a client, I thought, “If someone would just use this wonderful sprinkler technology for building a portable, [...]
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