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Printable Garden Planner

March 23, 2020 By Karen Creel

Printable garden planner

I’m ready to get out and play in the dirt.  We had a rain free day over the weekend, and I cleaned out my butterfly garden, and planted gladiolas and yarrow.  My new raised bed is planted with strawberries, and the smaller second one is ready for lettuce seeds.  Perennial plants are popping up and… 

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Butterfly Gardens

February 13, 2020 By Karen Creel

Milkweed is a great choice for a host plant in your butterfly garden

As I sit here writing this post on a Friday morning, it’s snowing in North Georgia.  Monday, as I left work it was 70 degrees.  Don’t be fooled by the ground hog’s prediction, we still have some cold weather to come.  I have several projects that I want to do including completing my garden shed,… 

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Filed Under: garden tips., gardening, Uncategorized Tagged With: butterfly garden, host plants for a butterfly garden, milkweed, nectar plants for a butterfly garden

How to Force Paperwhite Narcissus Bulbs for Winter Blooms

December 29, 2019 By Karen Creel

Bulbs can be forced for winter blooms using special vases.

I was at my local Tractor Supply a few days before Christmas buying bird seed, and lye for my soapmaking class.  Of course, I had also picked up a garden magazine, and was dreaming of spring.  Seed packets aren’t out yet,  but I spied a Paperwhite Narcissus Bulb Kit at the end of the counter… 

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Filed Under: Forcing Bulbs, garden tips. Tagged With: forcing bulbs, gardening, narcissus bulbs, winter blooms

Bringing Your Houseplants in for the Winter

October 26, 2019 By Karen Creel

How to bring your houseplants indoors for winter

Finally!, The weather in Georgia has started to cool down.  I didn’t think we were going to have a fall season after the horribly hot, dry summer we experienced.  But, the nights have started to cool down, and temperatures have started dipping into the 40’s.   It’s time to bring your houseplants in for the winter…. 

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Christmas Herbs: Rosemary

December 5, 2016 By Karen Creel

Rosemary played a role in the Christmas story

When I think of Christmas herbs,  rosemary doesn’t usually come to mind.  Frankincense and myrrh are known by most people as the rare and expensive herbs brought to the Christ child after his birth. But, after reading an article about Rosemary and it’s significance at Christmas I was surprised to find that Rosemary, or the… 

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Earth Day:Get Outside and Enjoy!

April 21, 2007 By Karen Creel

Beautiful weather is expected today in North Georgia. It is already sunny, and 52 degrees with an expected high 0f 72. I can’t wait to get outside. My perennial bed is covered with weeds as well as my herb bed. I plan on weeding, mulching, and planting several herbs that were left over from my… 

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Filed Under: business ideas, gardening

GardenChick Ramblings

April 10, 2007 By Karen Creel

Well, I can cross this blog creation off of my New Year’s “To do” list. The original date was January, but considering the procrastinator that I am, April’s not too bad. Now, if I can just get those taxes done on time!. I wanted to start the blog as an extension of my business “Gardenchick”,… 

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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.

 

 

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