It was a pleasure to find a comment this morning from a writer who writes from Lake of the Ozarks, using a lens at Squidoo. Click here http://www.squidoo.com/lake-of-the-ozarks to visit the Lake information. Lake of the Ozarks is a diamond sitting high in the crown of the Ozarks; here at Mansfield, we are at the Crossroads…
Category Archives: Missouri
Wishing Trees and Shrubs
We enjoyed enthusiastic speakers about trees and shrubs in the Ozarks at the Master Gardening program in the fall of 2007. Maintenance and wise planting guidelines that were presented were especially valuable. I wish we had had time to go over some standbys with more detail. I have been nursing baby trees salvaged from the…
Squidoo-ing about Native Growing
Growing Native is a new lens at Squidoo featuring the information that is posted in the item about growing native plants in your garden or on your property. Growing native is a good cause for preserving native plants in Missouri. The planting method is also useful in conserving resources such as water because native plants…
Grow Native in Missouri — A Gardener’s Choices
Missouri’s Department of Conservation has an appealing landscaping and planting option for gardeners. The program has an easy name to remember and relate with — Grow Native. The past few years in Missouri have seen weather extremes that can tax even plants that have spend centuries adapting to the Ozark climate. The weather has been…
Weird Ozark Weather and Grumpy Ozark Gardens in 2007
The Ozarks Mountain country has had a peculiar weather year. The old adage, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes and it will change.”, more than applied in 2007. A different view might be “If you don’t like the weather, you can be sure it is going to get more confusing and…
Egg Shells Step to the Front, Please.
We go through a lot of eggs. The shells are welcome in the nightcrawler bins up to a point. Then, I’m looking for other things to do with them. Several years ago, I read about this formula. Gather enough eggshells to fill (without crushing) at quart jar or a gallon jar. Add water to the…
Muddy toes in Missouri
Boy, has it been hot! and Dry. We’ve had to do the necessary watering to keep things alive. Containers have a particulary tough time, but we manage to get them some sustaining water every day. Recently, our daughter and grandson spent several days with us. We knew when they were coming that we wanted to…
Mansfield, Missouri The Green Take-Over Revisited
The Green Take-Over has expanded. As written earlier, during a wonderfully wet Missouri Spring, we had about a gazillion pumpkin seeds sprout in the compost pile. The Easter Freeze was hard on them, even though I covered them with oak leaves.However, the big freeze didn’t totally kill them and they came back with a vengance….
