Lizards are my herb garden guardians

I’m not sure whether you like lizards or not, but I’m guessing you’d probably prefer not to find one in your house.

But, I have quite a few that live in the garden, and about 4 or 5 that live right in my herb garden.

Since they “moved in” (well, started their little family, because I’ve seen a few grow from tiny little things to quite large lizards), the number of unwanted bugs in my herb garden has DRAMATICALLY decreased.

At one point there were quite a few large ants that seemed to be taking over, especially over my basil tree, but now there are no ants to be seen. I’m not sure if lizards eat ants, or just keep them out, but I’m happy.

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Creating a Rose Garden

Everybody loves roses, right? So I decided to add a rose garden to my garden. In the next few articles, I’ll show you what I did, and give you all the tips for caring for roses that I picked up from the Rose Garden specialist who sold me the roses.

As I write the articles, I’ll add a link to the bottom of this article as an index/reference point for all my Rose Garden articles… Perhaps bookmark this page so you can come back to it, and maybe see how my garden is going, as I plan on posting updates and lessons learned as I go along. Of course, if you have any of your own experiences, thoughts or ideas to share, please leave a comment.

Anyway, wish me luck. 😉

Creating a rose garden and looking after roses

Rose Garden Article Index:

Rose Garden – Plot out and prepare the area
Rose Garden – Water, water, water
Rose Garden – Dig your hole and plant a rose
4 tips for caring for Roses

Lawn Mowers

Lawn mowers are definitely a key tool in any gardeners kit. Or, should I say, lawn mowers are a key item in any lawn carer’s kit. There are a large variety of lawn mowers, and depending on your needs, there is sure to be one that suits you.

Riding Lawn Mowers

Pros:
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Herb Garden in 24 hours

Want to know how to create a herb garden in 24 hours? Hopefully this series of articles will help you do this. Herbs are always a good thing to have in your garden. There are medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, and, of course, there are the spices. Sometimes it’s good to mix herbs and spice, especially if you enjoy that extra bit of flavour in your food…

Some reasons for growing a herb garden are:
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