garden woes – October Dawn

Garden Update

It is the beginning of November. Temperatures- Highs this week are mid 70’s and lows in the 50’s. We have very hard well water. The water that goes to our house goes through a softener and is filtered. The hose water comes directly from the well. I have come to the conclusion, new hoses, sprayers, […]

You only need one luffa seed

You only need one luffa seed to feel like a master gardener. Luffa, sometimes spelled loofah, actually refers to the fruit of the vine. Luffa aegyptiaca is a member of the cucumber (Cucurbitaceae) family. It can be eaten in the young fruit stage, or it can grow big, allowing an intricate network of fibers to […]

Starting Seeds

For a long time, I thought that seed packets were a money trap. I would venture to say that most people that buy seeds they see at the store, actually have very little yields to show. (At least I was in that category.) It has taken A LOT of reading and learning to figure out […]

Garden Markers

I love my garden markers. They took some time, and I realized I needed way more than I originally planned, so I have been buying them over time. To make them, I cut the names out using my silhouette. I weeded the positive and left the negative. I then put them on the slate tags […]

Strawberries

I have always wanted to be able to walk into my yard and pick strawberries whenever I wanted. I am not sure how many strawberry roots I have bought and planted and only gotten a small numbers of berries from…too many to count. I decided this would be the year I was going to concentrate […]

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