Quality Entertainment Sharing quiet time with your family couldn’t be more exciting than backyard birding. Just when the weather puts a damper on outdoor plans, whether with drizzly rain, deep cold, or just an otherwise “blah” kind of day, activity at bird feeders tends to pick up. On beautiful days, birds often disperse to find… Read More
Garden In The Cold The reason we choose to grow certain crops in Fall and Winter became apparent especially early this year. As our friends in the North were getting pounded by tons of snow, the wintry blast brought our area night time temperatures in the teens a couple of months earlier than we would typically see… Read More
It’s Always Something Every few years there seems to be a perfect storm that can wreak havoc on the garden. There are droughts, floods, early freezes, damaging winds, hail and more. Sometimes these “storms” come in the form of critters. This year we have been visited by squash bugs, Mexican bean beetles, fire ants and a… Read More
Recycle leather scraps! It’s been awhile since I’ve done a craft here on The Prudent Garden. Since I made the Kirigami Leather Plant holders for my other air plants and houseplants, I have acquired more air plants. They have been sitting on my window sill. That’s not a nice place for these little lovelies to… Read More
A Bitter Goodbye The Summer of 2014 was an exciting time here at The Prudent Garden. This was the most productive vegetable garden we have had so far. It was my first summer being home full-time with the boys…and I survived. Mark and I officially became “garden writers” and we get paid to write about… Read More