Everybody Freeze: Protecting Your Plants with a Sand Bucket
Okay Mother Nature, stop being funny! Another freeze warning, no - not like the Cha-Cha Slide song. It's one thing to cover up flower beds, but now I needed to…
Limequat for Mother’s Day
Happy Mother's Day! This year for Mother's Day, Dave and the kids got me (us) a Limequat tree! Limequat is a Key Lime grated onto a Kumquat. It's been a…
Sprouts up!
Baby food! Here's some of our seeds coming up and we just planted a few days ago. Just in time for a potential frost this coming Sunday into Monday. Totally…
Today. We garden. Phase 1
Today we started our garden! We started two beds of vegetables and one bed of tomatoes. The weather should be in the mid to upper 60s to 70s for the…
Don’t Tempt Mother Nature
This is what you get when you try to plant before May 1 in Zone 6 (find your zone)- frost warning. I went to Lowe's and to buy some Basil…
Where Food Begins – Waiting for spring
As the snowflakes and freezing rain falls here in Pittsburgh, I look ahead to Zone 6 spring planting. Here's a baby picture of our vegetable garden's beginning on May 13,…
Composting at Home
One of the features of our the house we moved into was it had a garden, albeit it needed a bit of work, but we didn't mind! A few months…