Edging Flowerbeds
Edging the flowerbeds makes everything look neat and tidy, even if your beds are a mess of flowers and some weeds. I’ve been spending some time edging the front flowerbeds this month making everything look nice.
I have chosen not to add a plastic or metal edge in my garden because I’m often expanding and changing the beds. So each year I trim the edges of the lawn to keep them nice and tidy and to give me a nice mow edge along the borders. I usually fill the area I cut out with mulch to keep the weeds away.
Do you take the time to edge your flowerbeds?
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Scrubbing Up
Now that Mr Chiots and I are in our busy season for our business (if you don’t know what we do check out 2nd Mile Productions). Since we’re going to weddings most weekends I have to look professional and presentable, that means no dirty gardening fingers.
So, on Friday evenings I take some time to scrub up my hands to get all that dirt out from under my fingernails. I don’t have one of those nail brushes, I just use an old toothbrush and a bar of all-natural non-toxic gardener’s soap I got at the farmer’s market. I also use some baking soda to get rid of the dry patches on my hands from so much hand-washing during the week and I finish with some good non-toxic lotion (and occasionally a few drops of olive oil).
Do you have any trip & tricks for cleaning up your hands from all those gardening chores?
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Gardening Quote: Chinese Proverb
“The best fertilizer is the gardener’s shadow”
Chinese Proverb
That sounds pretty organic to me, what do you think?
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Gardening Quote: Aristotle
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”
-Aristotle
I love being able to bring some of those marvelous things inside to enjoy.
Do you bring fresh flowers indoors to enjoy?
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The Oxeye Daisy
Oxeye Daisies: Flowers are showy, making the plant a popular ornamental species. Leaves are sometimes used in salads (Howarth and Williams 1968). Tea made from the whole plant has diuretic and antispasmodic properties and is used to treat asthma and whooping cough (Holm et al. 1997).
They are classified as noxious weeds. Why? Here’s what the state of Washington say: Oxeye daisy aggressively invades fields, where it forms dense populations, thus decreasing plant species diversity. Oxeye daisy is a weed of 13 crops in 40 countries, causing particular problems in pastures. It invades crop land where it decreases crop yield.
I think they’re very pretty, they do have a tendency to take over if you don’t cut them down before they go to seed. One thing that’s nice about them is that they grow in areas where other things don’t. They’re very tolerant of poor soils and drought (they grow in my gravel driveway). I don’t pull them all out I leave some, the bugs seem to like them. I can see why they’re a noxious weed though, if you let them go to seed they’ll take over, which isn’t a bad thing if you don’t mind.
Do you have any noxious weeds you allow to grow in your gardens?
