Compost is the best thing to use to balance the PH and the mineral requirements of your soil. However, the following can be done for a "quick...
Truls should take a bow--he's a star! Hope the weather gets better for you and you lose your #1 status in the cold competition.
I must ask--do the black beans give the brownies the famous result of eating beans?
How frightening! I'm so glad you thought quickly and took care of the emergency.
What a lovely way to recycle flowers and styrofoam! Those pansies do look good--probably glad to be alive. Make friends with the maintenance...
You can either raise or lower the soil level(sounds dumb, doesn't it?) You can make a raised bed with a layer of gravel on the bottom to aid...
Our paperwhites are in bloom, and I have buds on two of the rose bushes. We are keeping an eye on the asparagus--it may spike early this year. I...
Well, Sjoerd, would you want to put something on your hand that had been dragged through a chicken coop? I think I'll retire that glove . . . .
Dan, I use my journal to plan--even paste empty seed packs into it to remind me of varieties that do well and where I got them. It helps also to...
Gracious, the green gods were smiling on you today, Donna! Those are great plants, and all for $3! I bet they look even better after you've cared...
Miracle-Gro feeds plants, not your soil, which is its major drawback. If your soil is healthy and fertile, your plants will be, too. Just boosting...
No, Toni, but her eggs might have had five fingers.
Drop a glove. The mornings have been chilly and I've been wearing a pair of light woolen gloves to feed the ladies and clean the coop. This...
We are so fortunate! Friends raise grass-fed Angus and we always get some lovely beef, just for contributing to the processing cost. We have our...
Our open-pollinated (possibly heirloom?) Red and Yellow Pear tomatoes have self-seeded for three years. Last year I noticed they were smaller in...
I loved that show, and thanks for reminding me of it. How do you tell Daryl from Daryl?
Rosie Greer, a HUGE football player, took up needlepoint. It's a bit messy, but whittling is interesting, and you can make spoons, whistles, and...
We are still 8b, and I'm glad. I'd hate to tell my plants that they have to pick up their little suitcases and move.
I have found that pets give us the emotional support and interest in getting up in the morning that few other beings can. I had a friend, a...
Plants that are open-pollinated (noted as OP in many catalogs) will come true from seed. They are not necessarily heirloom varieties, just ones...
