As any regular reader might guess, growing fruits and vegetables and herbs tend to be my forte. Now that we raise honeybees I do my best to add extra bits of color with hanging baskets. Most of these are filled with plants that attract pollinators so I have constant pollination for all of our plants. Unfortunately, we live in an area nowadays where many people spray for mosquitoes. This can
Life in Alaska moves infinitely slower than it does where we came from on the East coast but our gardening season is much much faster. So much so that it stunned me how quickly it ended. By the middle of September we were getting close to the type of temperatures that would kill the cold loving brassicas so we knew, the time has come to harvest what was left. Gardening
Normally I like to update here each week but this past week has been extremely busy. The theme parks are open so we’ve been enjoying that as well as preparing for our upcoming vacation. Plus, add the rainy weather and well. I just haven’t had a chance to take photos, give any updates, etc. So without further delay, here’s a photo log of how things are going. Unfortunately I forgot
Actually we completed the front bed over 2 weeks ago but we finally had the time AND the money to get the compost and till up by hand the area a bit. It looks so much better! However it appears that some monster is getting to the Marina di Chioggia simply because they’re being broken. I’m guessing it’s the neighbors dog but since I haven’t seen him do that to
This is something I just suddenly thought to write about simply because my Dad recently clued me in to the fact that he had no idea about this! How many actually knew that there are flowers you can eat? I’ve grown Nasturtiums just for the purpose of eating them but I didn’t know of some of the others. This is a list from About.com I really love combining plants that
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