Gardening Hacks: Privacy Screen, Hanging Baskets, and Pots
Our country house is small and lacks storage. We have two good sized outbuildings, but George just will not walk further than he must and has now reached the age where that is quite understandable. That means that the carport which is next to the house is a magnet all the junk a country place requires: garden tools, woodpile, two burner propane stove top to keep heat out of the kitchen in summer, gasoline, diesel, extra hoses, spare pots, potting soil, extra bags of cat litter, ladders and, at my place, birds. The three macaws love being outside in the summer months. Above you see the street view and the back view of the steel carport that is next to the house. Up until this year the street view was just awful. I thought about various ways of screening the front but had no budget for doing that. I have a lot of plants started in tubs and buckets because keeping them close to the hose and the house makes it much easier to care for them while they are small. Then one day I had a Eu...
