Where Do You Buy Your Plants?

The other day we wrote a post about a new garden we’ve built this spring. That garden was built with a lot of sweat, and a lot of visits to various garden centers, markets and a local farm. I thought our experiences might help you with your gardens. Here’s where we went to get our supplies… First, we had to dig up a good portion of the yard and deploy that “sod” elsewhere. We have

Weekend Plans: May 14th, 2011

We’ve been spending a lot of time outside recently. For the most part we’ve been cleaning up the yard from the winter, but we have also begun to plant the flower gardens for the spring. Clean-up and gardens have overlapped a little bit this year. We had been concerned about the snow crushing our shrubs, but they bounced back surprisingly well. However, in other parts of the yard, we did lose a couple of garden

Weekend Plans: Apr 16th 2011

If you’re looking to spend some time outside this weekend, consider helping the Knox Parks Foundation. The Greater Hartford Green Team is working with Trees for Hartford Neighborhoods to plant over 50 new trees in the City. The event runs from 9am to 1pm on Saturday, 4/16. Everyone will meet at the Niles Street Garden, at 17 Niles Street, to get a brief demo and then head out to the different planting sites. Volunteers need