Garden In The Cold The reason we choose to grow certain crops in Fall and Winter became apparent especially early this year. As our friends in the North were getting pounded by tons of snow, the wintry blast brought our area night time temperatures in the teens a couple of months earlier than we would typically see…
Birdwatching 101 I really enjoy birding. I am not the most well educated ornithologist, but I know who’s in the neighborhood, and when somebody new comes around I enjoy finding out who it is, and trying to figure out what brought them around. For part-time bird feeders like me, the season kicks off when the…
The Usefulness of Fall Leaves Lots of wind and cooler temperatures last weekend brought lots of leaves down. I haven’t mowed the lawn for about a month now, so it’s the perfect time for making quick and lazy leaf compost. Quick because I will use the mower, lazy because it’s a rider with a bagger….
It’s Always Something Every few years there seems to be a perfect storm that can wreak havoc on the garden. There are droughts, floods, early freezes, damaging winds, hail and more. Sometimes these “storms” come in the form of critters. This year we have been visited by squash bugs, Mexican bean beetles, fire ants and a…
Free Mulch “Free” is a deviously effective marketing tool. We all know in our brains that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” But we also know that “the best things in life are free”. Because I absolutely know that both of these statements are true, whenever I see the word “free” I have…