Tending the garden is more than just weeding, pruning, fertilizing, watering and harvesting. If this were all there was to it we organic gardeners could spend lots of time doing whatever else that keeps us from gardening, and when we would return to the garden there would be no unpleasant surprises. Somehow the use of […]
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It would be ideal, but I don’t have a compost pile. I have field mice and critters that would love a winter home like that, so my options are somewhat narrowed when it comes to adding organic matter back into my garden soil. What I have decided to do is to plant a cover crop. […]
Ok, Here are the bell peppers that I’ve experimentally saved from the Spring garden. Usually, when the heat hits and they wilt, drop their flowers and stop producing fruit, I pull them up. This time I cut them back in July to help them survive the heat and just waited. Now, August 18th, they are […]
Here are the broccoli babies I’ve been raising since middle of July. They are now in 4″ peat pots and setting outside on my porch where they get about 2-3 hours of sun per day. They’ve been outside for 2 days now, and will be taking on more and more sun until they can take it […]
Hi, it’s Gardeners Wife again. As I’ve previously stated, I am not into working in the garden like Husband (NOT AT ALL), but, I do enjoy the many lessons and confirmations that the garden has to teach.
Is this evidence of animals communicating? Somewhere I read that God’s message will be communicated, even the rocks cry out. Well this is likely not a message from God, but it sure will make you smile, check this out! The accompanying text is as follows:
It is certainly eye-catching, but I can’t help thinking that I really don’t want to fall in love with it. I do appreciate God’s creations, but there are some that I just would like to do without. This worm or actually caterpillar, was found on one of my tomato plants today, so I took a […]
Recently, Lamont lost a pepper plant to blight and he reminded me that the Great Potato Famine of Ireland was caused by blight. Then I read an article mentioning monoculture, which is growing a single crop in the same location year after year. (Polyculture is the healthy rotation or mixing plants together, as in companion […]
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Ok, I’m trying to learn something new. My friend Lamont grew an heirloom tomato this spring. I have avoided heirlooms because I thought they were more susceptible to disease, so I waited and watched to see how Lamont did with them in his Tucson garden. Nothing… no news about blight, tomato septosporia, leaf spot, nothing. […]
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Kingdom Likeness
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