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Get More From Your Summer Vegetable Garden!

Get More From Your Summer Vegetable Garden!

  You can get more from your summer vegetable garden if you follow some good advice. I know where to find it and I'm sharing some authoritative tips with you.     The summer vegetable growing season is flying by,…

6 Comments / 264 View / August 7, 2008

I’m Eating From My Garden and Losing Weight!

I’m Eating From My Garden and Losing Weight!

One of the most effective tools for losing weight is eating from my vegetable garden. I’ve pushed aside processed food and go “shopping” in my garden for the fresh harvest of the day. My goal is to fill three quarters…

9 Comments / 659 View / August 5, 2008

Indoor plants growing outdoors in a front yard in hawaii.

“Indoor Plants” Growing Wild in Maui

Indoor plants growing outdoors in a front yard in hawaii.

On my recent trip to Maui, I had the opportunity to witness tropical plants such as bromeliads, heliconias, spathiphyllums, crotons, and cordylines in their natural or “naturalized” habitat. To some of you, these plants are strictly seasonal container plants or…

5 Comments / 1769 View / August 4, 2008

For Varied Blog Interests: Try This “Top” RSS Reader

For Varied Blog Interests: Try This “Top” RSS Reader

Readers of  EdenMakers Blog can always find me on the garden-focused RSS feed readers such as the social networking destination, Blotanical.com, and GardenWeb.com’s “Voices.” I visit these sites for my daily feed of garden related miscellany and to mix it…

2 Comments / 104 View / August 3, 2008

Luaus and Getting Leied in Lahaina!

Luaus and Getting Leied in Lahaina!

 I’m not trying to be coy with my post title, there is a reason why I worded it that way. My family, along with our best friends, the Hargraves family, attended a luau in Lahaina where the hosts made a…

4 Comments / 1204 View / July 29, 2008

My Maui Garden Adventure!

My Maui Garden Adventure!

“Aloha” from Maui. The people, places and plants were gorgeous…but I also have some “dirt” on this island paradise! I’m BACK and still adjusting from the jet lag I experienced returning to Los Angeles from Maui last week. My internal…

8 Comments / 438 View / July 22, 2008

Mediterranean garden design by Shirley Bovshow

Aloha to My Mediterranean Garden…Hello Maui!!

Mediterranean garden design by Shirley Bovshow

I will miss my Mediterranean style garden when I vacation in Maui, Hawaii this week with my family, especially my pepper tree.   I’m hoping my tropical destination will help me forget how I am missing my beautiful “stone-ruin garden”…

15 Comments / 876 View / July 9, 2008

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