by Carol | Dec 2, 2011 | Fall Gardening, Garden Tips, Winter Gardening
Winterize your irrigation system. This may mean flushing out an older system, or just draining your drip system. Bait for slugs all through fall and early winter. Don’t bait for slugs if you live in the woods, you will kill all the big native slugs who...
by Carol | Nov 27, 2011 | Garden Tips
Check out the Portland Audubon gift shop’s open house event. It is an EVENT!! They have a big open house on Dec 3 and 4th with all kinds of cool things happening. The gift store manager, Nancy Mattson, scouts the country finding unusual items. As a former...
by Carol | Sep 27, 2011 | Garden Tips, Plants I Recommend
How to Prune Your Lavender Plants – Best Practice How to Make Your Lavender Last for Ten Years-Prune Twice A Year In late winter, (January and February) pruning lavender is an optimistic and happy task. If you are in on the secret this is when lavender gets the...
by Carol | Sep 10, 2011 | Garden Tips
Are you ready for the best time of year? Don’t give up yet and call it fall. I am still invested in the soft warmth of the morning sun. I drink my coffee out on the balcony and watch the river birds soar and swirl overhead. This was our Barley Dog’s last...
by Carol | Jul 26, 2011 | Easy Edibles, Garden Tips
Ok, so I tested the new grafted tomatoes. I forgot about having too many variables, so I also tested a new potting soil which totally goofed my test. I can tell you though, that the tomatoes in the fancy slow release fertilizer planter did the best. One was a grafted...
