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How to Transplant Moss

Hi gardener friends AND non-gardener friends! This is an easy one....so easy anyone can do it!
If you want moss for a covering in a pot or to transplant somewhere in your yard, it is so so very easy. All you need is a trowel and some bare dirt.
1. Find a patch of moss. (If you don't have easy access to moss in your yard, you CAN buy moss and transplant it into a terrarium once it arrives. HEREis a great little collection of various types to experiment with.) I have these random patches of moss growing everywhere shady in my yard in all different varieties. Look around lawns and other shady areas to find a chunk. Just take a little...leave some there and it will replenish itself. If you want to feel really good about yourself, find a chunk of moss that has a bunch of weeds in it like this:

Dig up the moss and you can then easily pull the weeds out...a win-win...transplanting AND weeding at the same time! You want to target patches that have tough weeds like queen anne'…

How to Build an Inexpensive Outdoor Playspace

Those are the knobby knees of my baby perched on a stump of wood. Clearly, we are at a ritzy playground, right?
Well, if there were any doubt, check out this barrel tunnel.

Fun times, right? Seriously fun times thanks to Nana and Pop.

They were gracious enough to bring down a bunch of wood stumps, that giant barrel, a tire and a load of sand. Those simple (yet heavy!) ingredients make a delightful playground for the boys.
Did I mention the load of sand?

(...the next words out of my mouth were "Get your mouth off of that nasty barrel!!!"...jsyk...)

...and 2 points to whomever can guess what kind of ball this is...

We have one giant old tree with twisted beautiful limbs (that unfortunately is covered in poison ivy, but that's a whole 'nother post for another day...) ...limbs that are big and strong and long enough to hold a rope swing...
If you would like to see her in all her icy, winter glory, you can see her HERE!
...but if you just want to see what she will ho…

Build a Leaning Trellis for Climbers and Shade-Loving Lettuces

You know how sometimes something is so simple that you see it and then literally smack yourself on the forehead for not thinking of it earlier? That would be this trellis. I was at Longwood gardens, working on a piece for Houzz and chatting with my SIL Kjerstin when all the sudden we came around the corner and saw the vegetable garden. Smack in the middle of the garden was a trellis. Not just a regular stand up, let vines climb you trellis, but a strong, thick trellis, laid on its side on a slant.
I smacked my head.
THAT is brilliant. It is strong enough for heavy climbers like gourds, zucchini or even watermelons and pumpkins (if you bag the fruit to hang on), but the slant lets the vines shade the ground. Why is that important? Because shade can be hard to come by in summer, and that tilted trellis provides the perfect spot for lettuce greens when the going gets hot in July.

BRILLIANT.
Go ahead -- smack your forehead -- you deserve it.

In the middle of the vegetable garden is th…

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