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You're crazy, lady! But... I understand wanting to get it just right. Better to have a hokey-pokey pond for a while than to have to live with the thought of "I should have done xyz while I had the chance!" I'm excited for pics!

Oh, wow! Ann, what a fabulous design for both yards. Functional, yet pleasing to the eye. Your pea gravel paths and raised beds are exactly what I had in mind for my garden after this season. I too am realizing that like raised beds better than gardening in the ground (it has a lot to do with a...

:ep We had giant tomatoes last year, check these out! This photo was taken in June of last year. In all fairness, I didn't know to pinch out the growing tip. I'm doing that this year and my tomatoes are much better behaved and more compact. I also planted the majority of the stem...

But turtles eat SLUGS, silly!!! Sacrifice a berry here and there for the free pest control! :lol:

Oops, I missed this thread somehow. I'm growing muscadine up my arbor right now. I transplanted the vine from my front yard. It was growing out of a hedge that we tore out. I decided to see if the grape would come back if I transplanted it, so I did my best to dig it up intact (was somewhat...

Oh yes, now I remember. Harvesting after the first frost makes it tender! Collards are a staple down here in South Carolina. If I go to a restaurant and collards are an option as a side dish (and at most local places they are), I get them. I could eat collards for days! I haven't cooked them...

Andy, toads (who love slugs) don't need water in form of a pond, just moisture. Make sure you have lots of hide-aways for them. You can make "toad abodes" out of terra cotta pots like this one. We used to have a horseshoe pit in the backyard that we covered up with foamboard, and toads used to...

In Germany we cook it similar to the way you would cook collards here in the States. Throw in some smoked meat and let it simmer away. Yummy! The best harvest is after the first frost. Dunno why. In Northern Germany (where I was born and raised) we have festivals and parties devoted to kale all...

Aw, poor guy! I live in suburbia, too, and just found my first frog a week ago (in the composter, getting fat on bugs!). It's a good sign that you have a frog in your yard, maybe he will hang out around the pond and be your little pest-control helper? The unfortunate thing is that amphibians...

creeping eruption :sick We have a lake at our dog park and I used to go wading in it until I thought about how gross it must be from all the poo run-off, etc. I only walk in the grassy part of our yard after the lawn has been mowed. That way I can see any poops that were missed during...

Beautiful! That's very similar to what my design started out as for my garden, but my dogs can jump that height, so ours is taller. :) I especially LOVE the rock border. So pretty.

Ah, we have that in common. I sketch things out, take months of surfing craigslist and dumpster diving, and research the heck out of something before I actually make it. Then I have to time the project with my husband's trips out of town. I do this for two reasons. (1) He is not the visionary I...

Congrats! Oh, and that cake looks great. What flavor? We had a bananas foster cake at our wedding and it was still the best wedding cake I have EVER had. No wedding cake at any wedding I've been to has come even remotely close. People still talk about our wedding cake three years later!

As long as you do some research and THEN do the project. At my house, masonry is banned (unless I am doing it, of course). DH tried to build a brick pizza oven once, and it was the joke of all our friends. I finally had to threaten to plow it over with HIS car before he took it down. It was...

Thank you everyone for you feedback! As I was reading about the reel mowers (ah, THAT'S what they're called!) I had flashbacks to my youth of the grass looking kind of chunky after I mowed it. I do remember having to mow frequently to make it look nice. Phyllis, your husband's account of his...

Oh wow, you weren't kidding! I don't know what that is, but I bet a good mulching would definitely help prevent it. Did it come up pretty easily? (I hope so!) My favorite method of mulching is using newspaper (wet it down so it doesn't fly away) and a nice thick layer of cypress mulch on top of...

:lau Although mine doesn't admit it, he has that talent, too. (My, he's modest!) :D We got an underground fence for the dogs last summer, and though we don't really use the fence itself (whole 'nother story), we do use the little flags that came with with to mark the "oops don't mow...

Yes, I hate my lawn. If it weren't for DH's typical American "must have nice lawn"-mentality, I'd rip it all up and have a cottage garden in the back. Anyways, our lawn mower doesn't like starting for me. It starts on the 5th or so try for DH, but not me. I pull and pull and pull and it won't...

My bees finally arrived, too. Mostly bumblebees. I'm so glad they're finally here! Better late than never. I was getting worried for a while there. :)

Thanks. :) It's definitely been an eye-opener. I had a very stable, fun job at the beginning of the year. I had been there for a long time and although I loved it, there were many times that I just felt like I had outgrown it. I was bored and frustrated many a time. So, being the planner I am...