Aug 18, 2022 | Composting, Container Gardening, DIY, Fall Season, Gardening, Native Plants, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables, Who We are, Wildflowers, Wildlife
The blog this week will be quite short, I’m afraid. I contracted COVID-19 (right around my birthday) and I haven’t been working in a couple of weeks. I’m not recovering as quickly as I want to be. But it doesn’t stop me from daydreaming about...
May 12, 2022 | Bees, DIY, Education, Gardening, Landscaping, Pollinators, Who We are, Wildlife
Bees & Butterflies have been fascinating us for centuries, and for good reason. Industrious bees and butterflies with stained-glass looking wings are a delight in the garden! As our garden center expands here at Shell’s, I’ll be talking a bit more...
Oct 13, 2021 | Bees, Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Food, Gardening, Pest Control, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables
Companion Planting, in the simplest terms is the practice of planting one variety of plant in close proximity to another kind of plant for a specific purpose. Companion Planting has been called other things too, such as intercropping, companionate planting,...
Apr 29, 2021 | Gardening, Pollinators, Summer Season, Wildflowers
Have you noticed wildflowers popping up all over? Both in managed and more “wild” landscapes, wildflowers appear when the weather is right for them. I looked in my garden – which for this year is basically laying fallow – to look for and...
Oct 28, 2020 | DIY, Education, Fall Season, Fertilizers, Gardening, Organic, Pollinators, Vegetables
Autumn Leaves in Florida may not be the idyllic multicolored leaf-fireworks show that it is in our northern neighboring states. But we still get leaves that fall to the ground during this time of year. As a statistic, an acre of trees drops about 2 tons of leaves...
Jul 9, 2020 | Who We are, Chickens, Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Gardening, Native Plants, Organic, Pollinators, Vegetables
If this Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted one thing for me, it is how dependent our society has become on the grocery store food and supply distribution system, and how that system is not built with sustainability in mind. Seeing the empty shelves and the panic...
