As always, mid-May is tomato-planting time in my garden. Every year, I grow my favorites plus a few "experimental" varieties, and this year is proving to be no different.
Mom's making greeting cards like her Christmas holiday cards featuring Esme to give her friends as gifts.
I always learn so much at Master Gardener events and was thrilled to take home these three gems of information.
Boost plant growth sans chemicals by adding one of these natural fertilizers to your garden.
One thing I know I am NOT going to do this year is let the cabbageworms get the best of me. Imported cabbageworms are common all across the U.S. They were introduced from Europe in the 1800s, and the caterpillars love to chew ragged holes in the leaves and flower buds of all members of the brassica family.
Place a temporary compost bin made of straw or hay on top of the garden for an easy-to-transport, no-waste composting system.
Do you have multiflora rose on your farm? We do. It grows down in the hollow near our pond. Sometimes Mom takes Uzzi and me down to to the hollow to browse, and we love nibbling multiflora rose petals.
I love how a good, sharp edge looks on a flower bed. Over the years, I have experimented with many different techniques and tools for getting a clean garden edge but have found one to be faster and easier than any other.
Build this wall-mounted bat house to foster bat habitats on the farm.
The vegetable garden is looking good! The lettuce is nearly ready to harvest, the carrots are an inch high, the chard is developing its first true leaves, and the cole crops are growing like weeds.
My son's bus driver gave me a small paper bag last fall—it was filled with Egyptian walking onions.
