One survived!
I call this amaryllis my miracle flower because it’s survival is indeed a miracle. I have been battling voles in my garden for the past several weeks. I lost over half of my garden due to a sudden population explosion…
War!
Been busy lately and lots to report but last night I discovered a horrible site. A pocket gopher killed about 75% of my garden. He did what I didn’t expect and that is to get into the tops of my…
Mosquito netting worked!
Last year I had terrible trouble growing these due to the cabbage moth and the earwigs that devoured them. When I peeked under the mosquito netting tonight I found a wonderful surprise. Big cauliflower and not a bug on it…
Some of my first harvest!
Th is my harvest from some white swiss chard transplanted from the ACE hardware. I just planted some seeds from another variety today called Virgo Swiss Chard from reimerseeds. I hope they are as good these were!
PVC structure to protect from pests
Here is my simple structure to protect young seedlings from getting consumed by my little garden friends. To take it off I can just lift it up. Here I am starting some sunflowers in a potato sack. They are are…
Little product review
We have a very nice electric dehydrator but it sure does take the electricity. It’s great for drying all kinds of things and raising bread at just the right temperature etc. but I couldn’t resist this little thing. I like…