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Bean Leef Beetle Damage
I can’t catch a break with my bean plants. Earlier in the year it was slugs, which I handily dispatched with a cold beer. This time however, I have bean leaf beetles, and the solution is not so simple. I know I have bean leaf beetles because instead of having large holes, I have many […]
Lunaria Annua ‘Money Plant’
I got this plant courtesy of my grandfather, it is one of his favorites and always grew at his house in a large mass planting. This is one interesting plant with many phases for you to enjoy. It is a biennial, which means it lives for two years and then dies. The first year it […]
How to Grow Raspberries
I’ve blogged about raspberries many times before, which you’ll see in the “related posts” links at the bottom of this post. But I don’t know if I ever really went into depth as to how I grow them. In anycase, now is the time. First, a little bragging. This picture was taken like the second […]
Zucchini Plants Dying from Squash Vine Borer
So, I tossed two of my zucchini plants in my compost tumbler yesterday, when pulling them up I didn’t need to uproot them, the squash borers had basically destroyed the main stem to the point that the top of the plant was hardly connected to the roots at all. I knew it was squash borer […]
Escaped Asparagus
I thought this was internesting. So we have this wetland preserve thing behind our house, it is encased on 4 sides by suburban sprawl, including major 4 or 5 lane streets, it is probably around 1 square mile altogether, with a walking path running through it. There is a lot of wildlife that call it […]
Updates: Garden Labels and Ditch Lilies by the Road
I’ve decided to give updates on two of my older posts. The first one is this old post on garden labels. It was one of the first posts I ever did. The post is dated January 29th, 2006, the label in the image is at least already a year old, and it is now mid […]
Grow Potatoes in a Trash Can
I recently blogged about growing your own food to save money and did not mention potatoes in that post because by a pure dollars per acre metric potatoes tend to not save you as much money at the market as other crops. However, what if you could grow potatoes without needing to sacrifice any garden […]
Sambucus nigra. “Black Lace” Elderberry Update
So here we are about 9 months after I first planted this bush and I thought I’d give an update, because really, I have so much more to say. I first blogged about Sambucus “Black Lace” when I first got it, so while I could talk about the colors whatnot, I couldn’t tell you much […]
Beer, Beans, and Slugs
Due to the rising cost of food I’ve been adding a lot more edibles to my garden this year, and am growing some for the first time, including, bush green beans. Having never grown green beans before I did not know what to make of damage that was all but killing my young sprouts. The […]
Train Clematis up a Post
File this under “other things you can do with fencing other than actual fencing.” Like my trick for saving shrubs from the ravages of rabbits I like to use fencing to form little cages, trellises really, around posts. Posts, poles, supports, columns, whatever you want to call them, we all have them, we all need […]