I did some gardening today, planting a couple new batches of flowers, portaluca and celosia. The Celosia will be iffy, considering they really need steady watering and I tend towards drought tolerant plants, but I couldn’t resist. They are so bright. I discovered that my lupine patch has spawned a traveler …half way across the [...]
So I’m wondering what people pay here to be a part of a CSA? My city, Pensacola, FL just started one and it seems to expensive. Subscribers pay $390 for one 13-week season or $780 for the entire summer. Those who prepaid for the entire summer got a 5 percent discount, paying $741. Opinions?
There are a lot of little brown “rusty” spots on my strawberry leaves, some on my raspberries and other berry bushes I have planted near them. I just planted them last weekend and they were fine before then, but this week has been really rainy, foggy, humid and warm. I Googled for info and found [...]
During the past winter months, I was browsing at my favorite local nursery and came across a display of amaryllis bulbs, some in pots, some in pots in pretty packaging (with instructions included), and a few bare bulbs, most of which had labels bearing their names, and all greatly reduced for clearance.I selected two: one called [...]
I recently acquired a venus fly trap and read that it grows best in a acidic soil composed of peat moss, perlite/sand. I have the perlite and sand. Where can I find peat moss? I need small amounts (1 -2 cups) and read that I should avoid Miracle-Gro type of peat since it contains fertilizer. [...]
Until now, the only thing I’ve ever grown were some herbs in my kitchen window, so I’m definitely ecstatic about… PEAS! My first ever vegetables, grown entirely from seed. After being shelled We had a couple of thunderstorms last week (the most we’ve had in probably 2 years) so they’re lop-sided One of the mammoth [...]
itsy bitsy spider jumping spider of sorts, I think. Fast little guy!
in no particular order: veggie garden from the front yard: more front garden pix: and the sides and back: I haven’t kept up with the weeding, so bear with me, I have a great excuse it’s called flexor tendonitis. :( but I still love my flower gardens as wsell as the veggies.
Someone ate my sage seedlings! They were in a planter on my balcony and doing really well. I’m so sad. Was it squirrels? Birds? No other seedlings are damaged…
i recently moved into an apartment and would like to take my blue girl rose out of my old front yard. could i re-pot it and put it on my balcony, or should i dig it up and put it in my mother’s yard?