Pollinators in Your Garden
Attracting pollinators to your garden may be something you need to investigate if you are not getting the results you were expecting.
Number One Reason My Plants Thrive (or don’t)
This year is my first year back to gardening after taking a few years off. Coming to the conclusion we might be move in 2016 I planted a simple garden with the intent to leave it for my neighbor to pick as she liked. In 2017 we were in a rental house, getting settled, having […]
Tomato horn worm
Contrary to what most of the rest of the country is experiencing, we have been short on rain here while being abundant in heat. This has been the main challenge with growing a garden this year. Once I realized May and June were not turning out to be as wet as I had anticipated, I […]
Summer Travels and Fall Garden Plans
Our slow, empty summer schedule ended up being anything but slow and empty. I would say I had been lost among the corn and only now found my way out. However, this is not Small Town. They do not grow corn here. Wrong soil. Here it is more likely to be cotton. You can see […]
Back To The Roots, windowsill grow kit – Review, Day 7
This post may contain affiliate links. I am sure my readers can do basic math and realized that this Day 7 review is being posted a few weeks past the actual Day 7. However, the pictures and results are from that time. I was excited to try the Back To The Roots windowsill grow kit […]
NIMBY where humans and nature conflict
Conflict between humans and nature is nothing new. The news is filled of instances of conflicts between road building and aquatic habit, home building and cutting of trees for building materials, oil use and drilling in ANWR, wind turbines for electricity production and migrating birds, and many more. This is why the EPA was founded […]
Oh, be careful little hands what you do
It does not take long to start gathering “learning” experiences outdoors. This is especially true if you are there daily, or are curious enough about things to either be quiet and observe, or do things you would never advise your kids to try. Usually I am the former, though for this lesson very much the […]
How I Saved…Habits Can Be Great Things
While looking up a post on tomatoes I came across a post from a few years back. It had been a week of large savings, something I went on to talk about us having made a habit of doing from the time we were married. Actually this habit started before we were married as it […]
The Hedge Lord in our house is…
We like to play board games in our house, invite others over to play them, and go places to play them with others. We are not nearly as hard core as some people, but we do enjoy playing them. Two weeks ago we invited friends over to play. 25 people were here … and absolutely […]
Real Life Gardening Math To Help Save Money and Time
I want to purchase edging stones for several garden beds in my yard. There are a few ways this can be accomplished. Look on for sale pages for others who are redoing their landscaping and getting rid of their edgers. This would be the most cost efficient but also take the longest time. It would […]