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Gardening for Kids: Fall Bulb Planting for Spring Blooms Part II – The Reveal!

As the old saying goes, "good things come to those who wait." Sometimes, it's like a movie - where STAR WARS (good) opens the...

5 Crazy Tools for Garden and Grilling: Tactical Grilling? Zombies in the Garden? No Problem…

Memorial Day is coming. Father's Day is looming. With outdoor activities about to ramp-up, families will be hitting the yard and the deck for...

Gardening: Planting BrazelBerries at Rock Father HQ, and the 4 Ps of Growing Blueberries…

This year, we're trying some new things here in the Gardens of Rock Father HQ.  This being our fifth full season here at the...

Garden: The Gardens to Grow by Child-Sized Garden Planters from Magic Cabin…

Last Fall, a catalog for a place called MAGIC CABIN arrived in the mail here at Rock Father HQ unexpectedly. I'd never heard of...

Garden: RESCUE! TrapStik for Wasps (Review)

Updated July 20, 2017. I've been buying these traps every season since this review was posted. Sadly, they're being temporarily taken off the market......

Garden: First Spring Blooms with Addie’s Amaryllis

The first Gardening success of 2014! While Spring is off to the slowest start that I can recall, and there's been a few signs...

PBS KIDS to release CAILLOU’S GARDEN ADVENTURES on DVD for Spring…

Caillou is a hero here at Rock Father HQ, my oldest daughter's first love... something that's been well-documented here on the site. There's a...

Chicago Botanic Garden Offering $10 Parking as They Approach 1 Million Visitors for the first time in 41 Years…

My friends at the Chicago Botanic Garden are on the verge of a major milestone. For the first time in their 41-year history, they...

Gardening for Kids: Fall Bulb Planting for Spring Blooms…

With Gardening being a part of our regular routine, we've dabbled in annuals, perennials, vegetables, and more... but one thing we'd never worked with...

Gaming: FARMING SIMULATOR coming to XBOX 360, PS3 this November…

Now this is really cool. Having spent a lot of time on my Grandparents' farm as a kid, that lifestyle had a big impact...

Gardening: Fall Planting at Rock Father HQ, and Fun with Step2…

It's no secret that Fall is my favorite season. Chalk it up to being an "October Baby" myself (at least, that's how I've always...

Fall Gardening: Stopping the Stink Bug from Coming Inside…

It seems that every couple of years there's some new invasive pest hitting the area in which Rock Father HQ is situated. There's been...

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