Guess what we did this weekend! Go ahead and guess. I’ll wait. We scooped poop. A lot of it. We had to clean out the chicken run and, because of one thing or another, we were running a bit behind schedule. It really should have been done at least a month earlier, but this was […]
“The Three Sisters” is a method of companion planting that was used by the Native Americans. The trio consist of corn, pole beans and either squash or pumkins. This is a great combination to grow! We used squash and the corn we used was a strawberry popcorn. The three sisters each give the others something […]
A friend, Julie, asked to borrow a tiller the other day in order to till up part of her yard for a garden. I don’t till. I do have an antique tiller that worked quite well for my mother, but I’m too lazy (and environmentally conservative) to till. I don’t want to hurt my earthworms, […]
Well, for us the lazy part may have to wait until next year. You see, we got so busy in the fall that we didn’t over seed with winter rye grass and now we have weeds popping up everywhere. But here is the basic idea of lazy lawn care. Over seed with winter rye. Of […]
It was a little overwhelming moving from a house with a lot of structure in the yard to a completely blank canvas. Well, OK. It wasn’t completely blank. In the back yard, there was a raised area inside of landscaping timbers but it was all grass. There were also two Live Oak trees, but they […]
Natural Organic Home Garden Health Howard Garrett Dirt Doctor – Sick Tree Treatment. Sick Tree Treatment Step 1: Stop Using High Nitrogen Fertilizers and Toxic Chemical Pesticides Toxic chemical pesticides kill beneficial nematodes, other helpful microbes, good insects, and also control the pest insects poorly. Synthetic fertilizers are unbalanced, harsh, high in salt, often contaminated […]
The best solution for black spot is to get roses that are so vigorous that they aren’t susceptible. There are plenty out there, but if you get a rose that succumbs to black spot that you just can’t give up on (and who hasn’t?) then there are several things you can do : Keep water […]
Composting is definitely worth the effort. You can buy some pretty fancy composters and I have a tumbling style that was given to me, but I haven’t really been pleased with any of the commercially available ones. At the Grapevine Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park (on Ball St.), the Gaylord Texan has donated a demonstration […]
Natural Organic Home Garden Health Howard Garrett Dirt Doctor – Acceptable & Unacceptable Products in an Organic Program Don’t know what is or isn’t safe to use in an organic program? This will tell you.
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