Subject: GARDEN disPATCH: Calendula; Garlic; Sweet Taters
GARDEN disPATCH: Calendula; Garlic; Sweet Taters
June 21st, 2020 at 5:05 am ESTSummer Solstice Greetings, Gardener! How goes it in your garden? CALENDULA This year, we planted a number of Resina Calendula (Calendula officinalis ‘Resina’), the recommended type for making calendula salve. You might already use calendula for ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Tomatoes & Flowers!
June 14th, 2020 at 5:55 am ESTGreetings, Gardener! It has been an awesome week… and hoping you’re doing well too! TOMATOES! We picked our first red ripe tomatoes of the season, Early Girls. They were raised up in containers and spent part of the earlier months in and out of ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Garden Scapes are Here!
June 7th, 2020 at 9:13 am ESTWhoops! Sorry for the confusion and that you're getting this twice. I accidentally selected the wrong "from" website address when scheduling this late last night to go out this morning. 😜 Hope you're enjoying a healthy, happy Sunday surrounded by ...
Garden Scapes are Here!
June 7th, 2020 at 5:25 am ESTGarden Scapes Are Here! Our garlic plants have yielded their first course: scapes! We love how it is that many crops have multiple benefits, such as edible leave on the cruciferous plant and sweet potato greens. Well, it's the same with garlic plant ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Snap Peas Trellis; Gratitude; Optimism; Goals
May 31st, 2020 at 5:15 am EST“All my hurts, my garden spade can heal.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, philosopher, 1803-18 Sunday Greetings, Gardener! SPRING IN FULL SWING!! We should all be in full on spring mode by now. Hoping you’re enjoying the wonders and solace of your ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Tomatoes on my Mind
May 24th, 2020 at 5:15 am ESTHey Gardener! In a nutshell, we had a very rainy five days this week. Some of the more tender leaved plants look battered, but the upside is that we did not have to water very much and won't have to water for a few days now that things are drying ou ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Frost free; Strawberries!
May 17th, 2020 at 5:15 am ESTCould It Be? WEATHER - ARE WE CLEAR OF FROST? Reporting from Zone 7A, NC! Last weekend, we dipped into the low 30’s-only our cucumber plants got nipped. The longest range forecasts show no drops below 50 degrees (F). Could it be we are done with an ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Happy Mother’s Day!
May 10th, 2020 at 5:15 am ESTHoping you have a wonderful Mother's Day celebration! After Mothers, in this newsletter, we’re offering tribute to those small businesses who’ve helped sustain us for years, including through this time of uncertainty. At the same time, I invite ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Raccoon Baffle; Good Moth; Fleabane; Guerrilla Gardener
May 3rd, 2020 at 5:55 am ESTjamGreetings Gardener! It's perfect spring weather here in NC this weekend. Everything in nature is bustling in a normal spring way. This spring seems to be especially abundant in flowers. So grateful for that and for the time in the garden where thi ...
GARDEN disPATCH: Seeds; Goldilocks; Deflectors...
April 26th, 2020 at 5:15 am ESTHey Friend! All things considered, it was a pretty normal week. NEED SEED?We’d mentioned how seed companies had begun notifications about seed shortages, slow shipping and even needing to close shop for a time. Then, Paulina Circelli, one of our ...