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A Round Up of Fall Garden Tips

October 14, 2014 By Karen Creel

The anticipation of a new spring garden has past. We’ve survived the hot summer, endless watering, weeding, and fighting mosquitoes. Think it’s time to hang up your garden hat and tools? Think again. For some of us we have just gotten our second wind. Planting fall perennials, starting a compost pile, pruning, mulching, and getting…

Planting the Fall Garden

October 5, 2014 By Karen Creel

Every spring I wait in anticipation for the ground to become warm enough to plant. I water and fertilize all summer, and by August, most of my flowers have suffered under the hot summer sun. Tired of pulling weeds, and fighting off the mosquitos, I’m embarrassed to say, my flowers are looking pretty pitiful. But then comes fall. When parts of…

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.