For Home Gardeners Who Love To Dig In The Dirt
My Cats In The Garden Meet The Hummingbird Wars I recently wrote about the Hummingbird Wars in our garden. The Anna's hummingbirds and the Rufous hummingbirds who chase each other to protect their source of nectar. Whether it's the flowers or the hummingbird feeder they guard and watch and chase the other off. But that's …
I Joined Mosaic Monday. I'm sharing some of my blooms and garden friends this beautiful Monday morning. Take a look and enjoy.
If you are a garden enthusiast and love helping others, you may want to find out how to become a Master Gardener and be able to volunteer helping other gardeners. Master Gardener Classes take several weeks and cover all aspects of gardening and how to help other gardeners. Find out about the Master Gardener Program and become involved.
What vegetables can I plant in August? There are still some vegetables I can plant in August in the Willamette Valley in Oregon for a fall harvest, winter vegetable harvest or even a spring harvest. Find out what vegetables you can plant in your garden and check up on mine.
New proposal in Chicago city council would benefit urban gardens and urban farms. By easing restrictions in city ordinances, it hopes to encourage increased urban gardening, increase produce available and increase jobs in urban farming. See what the proposal is about. Some other bloggers are talking about it too.
Hummingbird Wars - Coming now to a humming bird feeder near you. See how this gardener watched the hummingbirds go at it for two days in a row. Hummingbird territoriality and aggression are reasons they have been called a bird of war in some cultures. They are endlessly fascinating to watch. But duck if a Rufous is dive bombing.
Call me paranoid, but I have a real thing about late blight on tomatoes. I go to all kinds of lengths to assure late blight control and tomato blight treatment of my tomatoes. Read my cautionary tale and take a look at a video of me pruning my tomatoes to prevent blight.
I Joined Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - I'm sharing what is blooming in Zone 8 garden in the Willamette Valley just what is blooming in the middle of July. Take a look.
This is an update on my efforts with potatoes in grow bags and tomatoes in grow bags as well as some of my other vegetables in grow bags and pots. They all seem to be doing quite well and a brief video shows just how they are doing.
Want to know how to install drip irrigation. Take a look at a drip irrigation sytem with just a very basic design. Also learn about some of the additional options for making a drip system in your garden.
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