Category: Gardening

It’s already May and the plants are really starting to take off. We have already started to enjoy the fresh spinach and lettuce and we are waiting for the others to catch up. Throughout the week I’m going to break down the garden in sections and talk about what’s working and what’s not. Greens Lettuce…

Does anyone know the name of this rose? These roses belong to my neighbors. They are huge, fragrant, and are a lovely shade of red and white. The prior owner’s weren’t the most social bunch so I never got a chance to ask them. UPDATE Thanks to Jammie and Cindee we have solved the mystery…

I discovered some new flowers while cleaning up the flower beds. Behold the bright Calendula or Pot Marigold. This is another edible flower apparently the petals can be sprinkled onto salads. We also now have a plant called Bachelor Buttons. I wasn’t sure if I would like these because they were growing fairly tall without…

I’ve been witnessing a strange phenomena every morning one of my potted plants has been dug up as if something was burrowing around the top of the plant. I suspect that this is the work of the evil squirrel and that he’s searching for new bulbs. Ironically, there is the start of a delicious new…

Here they are the last of the bulbs that I planted in the fall. This Dutch Iris was a little tricky. The bulbs were an impulse buy and I had them growing in a pot. It shot up something that looked like grass and it just stayed that way for months. I later realized that…

I’ve been doing the dreaded “housework” of gardening which consists of weeding and spraying aphids off every plant. However, while I was weeding this guy kept visiting the flowers. Here he is on one of the sunflowers.

My sunflowers are getting pretty tall but they still have a long way to go. A few look like they are getting started on growing a flower.

I keep forgetting to try these on a salad. They are still growing like crazy even after my dog knocked it out of it’s pot twice. I need to plant more of these along with more herbs.

While these shades may bring back memories of Mc Hammer they are actually the latest in Hi-tech gardening equipment. These glasses were designed by Nasa and the Department of Agriculture to detect sickly plants. The glasses block out the green reflected by chlorophyll. If the plants are healthy you will see gray and black but…