Hello and welcome from central Texas. You'll love it here--we are great stress relievers!
FBG, don't be embarrassed. Mart is our resident gardening genius. She also came up with the "upside down soda bottle manure tea infuser". Some...
Carolyn, we can garden pretty much all year 'round. We put in the fall garden in September with lettuces, chard, broccoli, the usual cool season...
While I was out watering the vegetable garden, I noticed I'd better go get a basket and harvest a few things. Got to the house with two heads of...
My sympathies--I remember a Mother's Day blizzard when we lived in upstate NY. That is one of the reasons we are now in Texas! Your peas will be...
Today is their first anniversary! Wishing happiness always to you two! (Don't you just love that "Add a calendar event" feature--let's us keep up...
Stratsmom, no one deserved such wonderful finds more than you (unless it were, ahem, me!). Leave the BBQ grill alone--it has character and you...
Honeybees are very calm, quiet, and non-agressive. If you have flowers (as most of us do) you have bees. Unless you have a reaction to a bee...
Oh my, that is truly lovely, and so tidy! How you keep up with it all is amazing. you obviously have an eye for design and great use of space....
FBG, no, that doesn't make you a Luddite (and bless you for knowing what a Luddite is!). It makes you good member of the Stew!
Flowers didn't jump in my cart, but they snuck into my car! We went to a friend's home who innocently said he had too many old-fashioned petunias...
You're home! Now, relax, take a deep breath, and get gardening! Very happy for you :-D .
Carolyn, when the bees seek you out as their new hostess/landlady, you must be doing something right! Hope your bees settle in and start carrying...
Vacuuming? Next you'll tell me you dust furniture! Sheesh, the things folks find to occupy their time. :roll: Actually, I have an Eureka World...
I didn't mean to imply that there is anything wrong with social sites, or the folks that use them. It just struck me that the Stew (clean,...
Chocolate, The guy down the road who can grow anything, has a banana tree. He actually got bananas last year! His tree is next to a metal...
I read an article that said many websites had less participation because members were using "social media" sites. They preferred to talk to people...
Ed, there are ground feeders and there are top feeder birds. We find that the cardinals eat what is in the feeder, but the sparrows toss out a...
Welcome to the Stew! You'll find lots of friendly gardeners here, lots of inspiration for your writing, and, if possible, we'd love to see your...
Well, they feed on nectar and pollen, so they pollinate. That's about the extent of their beneficial impulses. They excavate holes to live in,...
