The Resilient Gardener
The Resilient Gardener
Welcome to The Resilient Gardener Blog, an inspiring place where
we cultivate ease and joy through our love of gardening.
You’ll find practical tips and techniques and insightful and
innovative advice to help you adapt and flourish.
Toni’s Tool Tips | Watering Hoses
Quality Lightweight Hoses Do Exist! Maybe I bought the wrong hoses in the first place. I was always wrestling with them when I was unraveling it or unkinking it and the darn thing was heavier than I wanted to do when I wanted to put it back on the hose hanger. I found it was …
Garden UP with Vertical Gardening
No space? No problem. Grow your flowers and veggies up by finding inventive vertical gardening opportunities. It’s nice to know you can garden without having to bend down at all. Vertical gardening is a technique of growing plants in hanging baskets, window boxes and trellises so most of the maintenance is at waist-to-eye-level, enabling you …
Re-cycle, re-use and re-purpose your pre-loved things
Any vessel that can hold soil and has drainage will work as a re-purposed container. Look in your attic or your garage to find mementos you are not ready to let go of, but all it has been doing is gathering dust. Go to garage sales to find unique, interesting objects. Make sure they are …
Toni’s Tool Tips | Soil Scoop
This tool is my go-to for most chores in the garden because it replaces numerous other tools. And as far as I’m concerned, learning to simplify is one of the biggest goals of adaptive gardening. This Soil Scoop replaces most trowels because it has a much larger head than the standard trowel, so you can …
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—Sue David