I haven’t been very attentive to the greenhouse this winter, other than throwing a few seeds in there, a number of weeks ago. The ants are still determined to enjoy the winter in a few pots I have lining the floor. This week I took some kitchen compost and leaves out to start layering the…
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Beginning Winter Garden 2014
I’m getting ready for much colder weather tonight (Saturday). Along with moving all the cold sensitive plants, I’m harvesting all the tomatoes I can, and picking the small butternut squash that I’ll cook like summer squash. I found a really large butternut, ready to pick, underneath all the basil plants, and a few red banana…
Fall 2014 Gardening
I usually don’t like spiders, but this large garden spider has been my buddy all summer. It lives on the door to the greenhouse, and very nicely moves out of the way, when I go in. They eat an enormous amount of bugs, so I let these guys live. She layed 3 egg sacks. One…
Best Deer Deterrent
For those of you who have followed my problems with the deer eating everything, I think I’ve stumbled onto a fairly simple, and cheap solution. It’s not pretty, but it seems to work, and certainly is light years ahead of using mountain lion urine, and having to smell that in your yard!! We have an…
Gardening July 2014
We’re pretty consistent with our vegetable production this year. I planted squash late to avoid the squash bugs, and so far it’s been successful. I harvested our first white squash this week. There’s a volunteer butternut squash plant that came up from one of the compost stacks, and it’s started producing. Of course, I harvested…