As the Garden Grows

What's blooming today?


You are here: Home / Archives for Tricia

Keep slugs at bay

by

Here’s my Tip of The Day:

If you live in a zone 5 or lower climate do not put mulch on your garden beds until June!

If you put it on too early you’ll have lots of slugs. Instead, take this time to stir up the soil around your plants. This will expose tiny slugs and either kill them off, or expose them to birds and other predators that will eat them.

You’ll have far fewer slugs if you turn the soil around your plants at least once a week until the end of May. Then, to keep moisture in the ground, and to help keep your plants roots cool, do put mulch around your plants anytime from the beginning of June to mid-June. Your garden will be be happy, will be a little more drought tolerant and you’ll likely have less slugs to deal with.

This really works!






Smile has two award winning credit cards

by

If you’ve been looking for a new credit card you might be interested in the Smile credit card.

There’s currently two different types of cards in the Smile credit card line up.

One of the cards is the classic card with cash back. You’ll actually get 0.5% cashback on every penny you spend. Compared to other credit cards the Smile classic credit cards interest rates are fairly low as well, especially if you open a banking account with Smile as well.

The second card in the Smile line up is the low rate Gold card. Interest rates for this card is even lower than the classic card at just 9.9% APR if you take out a Smile current account, and only 14.9% if you don’t bank with the company.

At the Guardian Consumer Finance Awards, the Smile credit cards have been voted the Best Credit Card of the year four years in a row between 2002 and 2005.

Check out the credit cards now and Smile.

Beautiful Fringed Tulip

by

Join Green Thumb Sunday
Join

Fringed Orange Tulip

You’re probably starting to think that most of my tulips are orange, aren’t you?

Honest, I have tulips in many different colours. It’s just that the orange ones seem to interest me the most this year. I love the fringed tulips. As you can see in this closeup they are very ornate and have a lot of flare, or Zing. Whatever you want to call it, they give the garden a little something extra and I just love them.

Late yesterday afternoon I decided to do some work in my front garden. That’s where I found this beauty.

The front garden has been pruned and tidied up now. Hopefully I’ll feel up to finishing the back garden sometime later today. I really need to get the flower beds in the back yard finished.

BTW this photo, and the one I’m using on Tricia’s Musings is straight off the camera. No cropping, no adjusting color – just as is. Some people have been asking what kind of camera I’m using, it’s a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 7.2MP.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Meta