Starting Planning for an Autumn Harvest We just picked our first bunch of tomatoes last week, but I’m already thinking our fall vegetable garden. Partly because we’ve hit the nineties and the humidity has me dragging in the afternoons, but also because vegetable gardening in fall is my favorite. It starts with hot days but…
Time To Move On It’s hot, the tomatoes are just about worn out, the bean beetles have severely battered the snap beans, the summer squash is long gone. What better time to start a new garden phase? It’s time to get the fall garden plan underway! Several tasks are necessary over the next few weeks…
An At-Home Conservation Project For The World The Great Backyard Bird Count is a project of Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The National Audubon Society, in which everyday people, wherever on earth they are, count the numbers and species of birds they observe. This annual event takes place each February over a four day period….
Quality Entertainment Sharing quiet time with your family couldn’t be more exciting than backyard birding. Just when the weather puts a damper on outdoor plans, whether with drizzly rain, deep cold, or just an otherwise “blah” kind of day, activity at bird feeders tends to pick up. On beautiful days, birds often disperse to find…
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…