Never underestimate the power of cheap wildlife netting. It’s the same type of netting we use on tomatoes. After covering all the plants that the deer find irresistible, we noticed that our resident rat snakes get tangled in it, and eventually die. Most of the year I don’t mind rat snakes living here, because they…
Category: In the Garden
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Find Your Way With Vegetables
White Diakon (miyashige) is most commonly found for sale at farmers markets, Asian grocery stores, and upscale grocery stores. It’s great raw and shredded or in marinated salads, but recently I read how beneficial it is in the garden, so it will become one of my regulars along with beans and legumes. Click here, for…
Deer Deterrent Du Jour
I hate to declare victory too soon, but it’s been several weeks, and my perennial morning glory is not eaten. I’m using original Irish spring soap, cut each bar in half, run a wire through it, and hang it at their preferred eating level. Anything they typically eat, I’m hanging a half bar on. At least…
Garden – Spring 2016
I haven’t talked about gardening in a while, so it’s time. We’ve had some new additions to our gardening landscape, one is an old cast iron bathtub (which may eventually get some 70s stenciling!). I decided it would be the squash garden this year. We struggle with squash every year, because of squash bugs….
Mad for Mushrooms
We’ve finally taken the leap after 20 years, 6 books, and 1 workshop. I know we’ll be taking more workshops, especially on identifying and collecting wild mushrooms. But for now, we’ve ordered shitake mushroom plugs. oyster mushroom plugs, and beeswax. We’ve harvested at least 8 – four foot long oak logs (from living trees –…