Subject: To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
September 9th, 2018 at 6:44 pm ESTTo Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow Whether it’s setting in fall transplants, sowing seeds, planting daffodil bulbs, or planting a sapling, Ms. Hepburn’s oft-quoted remark is spot on. By taking up gardening, we initiate a relationship wit ...
Garden Newsletter: Fall Garden Maintenance And Tips
September 2nd, 2018 at 6:03 pm ESTGarden Newsletter: Fall Garden Maintenance And Tips With three weeks of summer remaining before the fall equinox—as of this writing—we’re proceeding with the changeover to our fall/winter crops. So fall garden maintenance and tips is the theme ...
Newsletter: Garden Design App, Harvest and Edible Landscaping
August 26th, 2018 at 9:41 am ESTNewsletter: Garden Design App, Harvest and Edible Landscaping Hello friends! It's that time of year now for our midseason garden report card. Thanks to our fantastic garden design app, we can render a crop by crop report. We can observe and remark ho ...
Garden Newsletter: Owl Bird Deterrent, Tomatoes, Seed Reviews
August 19th, 2018 at 1:49 pm ESTGarden Newsletter: Owl Bird Deterrent, Tomatoes, Seed Reviews This week is another short one due to travels. I serve as an investment coach once a month or so, usually in Atlanta, so away from the garden for a few. The them for us this week is back t ...
Garden Newsletter: Hummingbird Food, Storing Seeds, and More Rain!
August 5th, 2018 at 11:06 am ESTGarden Newsletter: Hummingbird Food, Storing Seeds, and More Rain! Another week of deluge! Somebody special must be doing a rain dance marathon. We live on a hill above a creek and a bog and with the flooding in our area, it looks like a big lake do ...
GARDEN NEWSLETTER: Rain, Split Tomatoes, Sawfly Larvae, Dipel and Yummy Cucumber Soup
July 29th, 2018 at 12:51 pm ESTGarden Newsletter: Rain, Sawfly Larvae, Cucumber Recipe and More What a week! Our garden rain gauge showed 5 inches after 3 days of thunderstorms. Thursday, it began to dry out and we applied Serenade fungus spray to our tomatoes and Dipel to the kal ...
Garden Newsletter: Split Tomatoes and Green Tomatoes
July 22nd, 2018 at 8:30 am ESTGarden Newsletter: Split Tomatoes and Green Tomatoes Our backyard garden looks pretty wild these days. The timed drip irrigation has really helped. We had to increase the watering frequencies given the scant rainfall these past two weeks. What’s th ...
Wabi Sabi – Flawed Beautiful
July 15th, 2018 at 7:00 pm ESTGarden Newsletter: Wabi Sabi – Flawed Beautiful "Wabi Sabi Sunflower: This imperfect flower… if given a voice, would care not a whit that it’s missing some petals. It’s still a flower, lovely in its imperfection." ~Coleman Alderson According ...
Garden Newsletter: Pruning Squash Plants and Garden Delights
July 8th, 2018 at 8:19 pm ESTGarden Newsletter: Pruning Squash Plants and Garden Delights If conditions permit, squash vines can yield abundance. Winter squash, if cured and stored properly, can be consumed right through the winter. Summer squash, like zucchini, can get out so o ...
Garden Newsletter: Powdery Mildew Treatment and Squash Vine Borer Control
July 1st, 2018 at 8:51 am ESTHappy Sunday! Sometimes with gardening, there’s the relatively steady ebb and flow. Daily, we survey our patch and sometimes discover a minor pest problem, handle it, and continue on. No big deal, right? Other times, such as this past week, it se ...