Do any of you remember Blue’s Clues, when the mail came? Steve, the main actor would yell out “mail time.” Well, gardening has the same excitement. And you know it is “gardening time” when the trucks dump in my driveway. Just in case you don’t remember the Blue Clue’s mail time song, watch the below […]
Grow Your Own Vegetable Seedlings. Slim your Waist and Footprint.
This is my fifth season of growing my own food, and believe me, it never gets old. Once you taste a ripe tomato from the vine, you never go back. I grow everything from seed. Believe me, it is not intimidating at all. In fact, it is down right fun especially for your […]
Growing Buckwheat from a Backyard Gardener
My friends think I am loony tunes when it comes to what I grow in my garden. Some climb mountains, some jump from airplanes, and I grow unusual plants. I am a garden thrill seeker. This year, I grew buckwheat, sorghum, and artichokes in my northern garden. Buckwheat was the easiest plant to grow and an outstanding flowering […]
Urine Does a Plant Good
Photo by Andrew Scott Let’s talk about #1 (aka pee pee, urine, pee, or urea) and #2 (aka poop, poo,or sh*t) . Frankly, #2 gets alot more attention. We use the word to express our unhappiness, when we bang into something, or drop something on our toes. (No maybe that is the “F” word.) We […]
