gardening with kids

Plant a Pizza Garden

February 8, 2020 By Karen Creel

Getting kids to eat their veggies is not always easy. By getting them involved in the growing, caring for, and reaping of the benefits of their work, you may cultivate a life long love of gardening. Every kid knows what a pizza is, and you would be hard pressed to find one who doesn’t like…

January 25, 2009 By Karen Creel

I developed several products a couple of years ago under the Mackenzies Garden logo. Mackenzie is my oldest granddaughter, now 5. My goal for 2009 as far as my business goes, is to grow my business. One way to do this is to get publicity on your products. With a marketing budget that is near…

Holiday survival

January 19, 2009 By Karen Creel

My granddaughters, Mackenzie and Kendall are here today. Mackenzie is off from school for the Martin Luther King Holiday. We had a sleepover, so that they did not have to get up so early to come over this morning. Early?…..they were both up by 6:30 this morning! By nine o’clock, we had eaten, watched some…

Gardenchick is a place for gardeners, flea market fanatics, lovers of the farmhouse look, and purveyors of all things rusty!

I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age. I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers. Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch. I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard. My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden. He had me help him plant a garden in May before he died in August. So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

I can’t explain the love of rusty and all things chippy, but I have dug through more barns and sheds than I would like to admit to bring out a rusty wagon or old chicken feeder.

So, I hope you will follow along, and we can learn a few things together. I’ll be sharing gardening ideas, my flea market finds, and thrifty ways to repurpose.