The Jones Farm in Happy Valley on the upper Yadkin River in Caldwell County, NC hosts 3 events each year: Plow Day, Mow Day, and the Yadkin Valley Fiddlers’ Convention. On Plow Day, owners of teams of draft animals and antique plows meet to plow and hobnob in the  cornfields along the Yadkin River. On Mow Day, enthusiasts of [...]

Hi there! New here, but I have a quick question, maybe one of you knows how to do this. Basically, I want to know if there is a way to get the high level gloss back into your bathroom counters after you clean them? It’s as if the cleaning agents that we use, some scrubbing [...]

My veggies keep growing and growing. My zone 5 weather has been very warm the past two days (nearly 80) but we had a cold snap last week with a night below 32 so I’ve been holding off on planting things outside. I started “hardening off” my squash, zuccini, beans, cucumbers, and peppers. They do [...]

I woke up a couple days ago to find ants in my kitchen. The tiny little black ones. I sprinkled cinnamon where I thought they were coming in, but they just come in from somewhere else. What can I do? Admittedly, it was messy and a little dirty, which is what attracted them. But I’ve [...]

I recently moved cities (because started a new study at a new uni in a new city, etc. haha) and today I finally got around to changing my room to its final setup, and also to take pictures (since today it is still pretty clean and shiney and tidy etc!) My old set-up. I had [...]

The New Shade Garden is pretty much finished! I have a quick picture tutorial on dividing plants but if it’s too brief I’ll be happy to answer questions. I also threw in a short tour of the perennial garden where I am combining growing vegetables for the table this year. I tried to make it [...]

i few years back i recall seeing these little perhaps nylon like pouches you could slip over each individual fruit to provide a barrier to pests. i had saved a link, but my computer crashed horribly and while they saved all my pictures and music, they did not save my links. these ‘pouch’ like things [...]

I have a plastic composting bin that I’ve been filling over the past year. It’s been host to many and varied creatures; woodlice, slugs, worms and now, recently, ants. I don’t mind the ants at all – in fact I feel a little guilty every time I slug another bag of kitchen waste into the [...]

ok, first I gotta warn ya, these aren’t the big showy flowers everyone else is posting, this is my baby, the veggie garden and the plants are babies too. this is what came up from seed planted a month ago-turnips-rutabags, and beets and this is my new add-on garden for corn and squash here is [...]

It’s never enough, is it? I thought I had everything I needed but I’m thinking there are some blank spots: It must have been a month ago that I asked advice here about weed-proofing my front border. I put down some landscape fabric and, following the great advice I got here, planted the marigolds about [...]