I am harvesting full grown, delicious, juicy onions in late June. This has not been my normal experience for my southwest Idaho garden, but I think I know how it happened this time. It all started just over a year ago… For the 2012 gardening season, I was trying a lot of interplanting. Some of […]
How to Make Garden Compost Without Losing Your Mind – part 2
In part 1 of How To Make Garden Compost Without Losing Your Mind, we observed that things rot unless there are extreme conditions keeping them for doing so. I mentioned a couple of ways I have applied composting principles to my garden (mulching with grass clippings and letting chickens scratch in it). The techniques my […]
How to Make Garden Compost Without Losing Your Mind – part 1
Recipes for compost are like any other recipe: they are meant to be experimented with to suit individual needs and preferences. If you are at all like me, there have been times when you didn’t start something because “you weren’t quite set up to do it right.” The fact is, “right” is an evolving concept […]
Finding Catawba Grape Seedlings Under the Grape Arbor to Transplant
One of the fun things about weeding is finding unexpected volunteers. This year I found grape seedlings for the first time. I don’t know if I just missed understanding what they were before or if weather conditions were better for them. They are Catawba grape seedlings, just barely getting their true leaves. If I […]
Weeding Goal Schematic of Yard Organizes and Inspires
How to turn into a weeding machine Even a goal oriented person like me needs goals that are possible. Tell me I need to keep the acre weeded and I panic. Make me a chart of the yard and let me color in sections as I weed them, and I turn into a weeding machine. […]