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Organic Grown, Nutritionally No Better Than Commercially Grown Vegetables
Put your clubs, hatches, spears, pitchforks and knifes away! Don’t kill the messenger! UK Study Finds – Organic grown vegetables ‘has no nutritional health benefits’ Please Note that this study only...
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Spring/Summer Gardening – A Stroll Down Memory Lane
Looking at some of my past postings I discovered some that you may or may not find interesting to read again, or maybe read for the first time. The links (URL’s) are not in any preferred order. I just...
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Finish Your Winter Projects Before Spring Arrives! – Drink Coffee – Live For...
Source Hedge trimming: tips for keeping your hedge in perfect shape I generally post mostly about growing and harvesting fresh fruits and vegetables from your backyard orchards and gardens. However I...
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Spider Identification And Control – Updated repost
2013 spring and summer will soon bring out all the insects and spiders that managed to survive winter weather. Our mild winter has allowed many more adult spiders to survive this past winter and start...
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Controling Bugs In Your Garden?
Grin … A better way to control garden eating bugs, instead of using a toxic insecticide spray. Stir them in a little, salt and spice flavored Olive Oil. Roast, grill or broil them. Then eat them!...
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Whole Grain Products Are Good For You – Gluten Free Is A Poor Diet Choice
Source Why you shouldn’t go gluten-free 1 percent of the population has celiac disease and may need to reduce gluten in their diets. Avoiding gluten in your diet can lead to health problems. Gluten is...
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Garden Fairies To My Rescue
Keep Whining, It Works! I’ve been whining to to anyone what would listen for the past 2 months that I needed to spread and till sort-a compost into my garden plot. Today I had to go to town this...
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Tasting Better With Herbs
Herbs do well in container gardens, window boxes and raised beds. If herbs are conventionally located to you and your kitchen you are more willing and more likely to use them cooking and serving every...
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Mustard, Much More Than A Yellow Sandwich Spread
Click pictures to Zoom In No herb garden or kitchen should be without a supply of garden fresh Mustard. Mustard is an ancient plant that’s full of appeal for contemporary gardeners. Historical records...
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DIY Manure Tea
Reviewer Rose blog ask me if I ever used Manure Tea. The answer is Yes I have. On my last move to my Tiny Farm somehow me and my manure tea barrel got separated and the 50 gallon barrel never …...
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Care And Feeding Your Dirt – Garden Soil 101
Click pictures to Zoom In Know Your Dirt. These are common soil preparation and soil amendment recommendations. No two places in the world have the same soil conditions nor can you apply the same...
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Sphinx Moth – Tomato Horn-Worm
Hornworms can be found in your garden from early spring, eating your newly planted seedlings until late fall and your first light frost. The caterpillars of the tobacco hornworn can be distinguished...
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Is It Spring Yet?
Click Picture to Zoom-In Spring has arrived – Well Not Yet! Yesterday was 82 degrees and today highs are forecast to hit 80 degrees, but a cold front moving down from the northwest has us under a...
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Tomato’s In Your Home Garden –‘Again!’
It would be a challenge to find one Home Garden in America that does not have at least one tomato vine. You will find them hanging upside down in pots and buckets, in containers of all sizes and...
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Home Grown Lettuce – Best Salad You Will Ever Taste
Source University of Illinois Extension Lettuce is a cool weather vegetable that thrives when the average daily temperature is between 60 and 70°F. Plant in early spring or late summer. Some types and...
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Cabbage Patch |-Doll-| Family Reunion
Stop it, stop making that ugly face. Cabbage and all it’s family members taste good and are good for you. Cruciferous vegetables (cole vegetables) cabbage, cauliflower, collards, broccoli, Brussels...
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Tomato’s From Seed to Your Table
1. Don’t Crowd Seedlings. Don’t Let Seedlings Grow Into Each Other. If you are starting tomatoes from seed, be sure to give the seedlings room to branch out. Close conditions inhibit their growth, so...
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Cabbage Worms And Loopers – Who Knew?
The term cabbage worm is primarily used for any of four kinds of larvae that feed on cabbages and other cole crops. Host plants include broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, collards, kale, mustard...
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Beet’s (Beetroot) 101 – Growing, Harvesting And Cooking
Source Growing beetroot BBC Gardening Stop that, don’t let your children see you making an ugly face while reading about how to plant, grow, harvest and eat your garden fresh beets. Freshly pulled...
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Cantaloupe Or Muskmelon? Both Are Delicious And Easy To Grow.
Cantaloupe and Muskmelon are can be grown in USDA Hardiness Zones: 4 to 11. They prefer Full Sun exposure, a somewhat Sandy soil that is slightly Acidic to Neutral. What we gardeners commonly refer to...
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