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...
Aug 4, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Fall Season, Gardening, Landscaping, Planting Prep, Summer Season, Vegetables, Who We are
As we gear up for Fall Planting, we celebrate this blog’s 5th birthday (woohoo!!) – and my own birthday too – I wanted to bring you a review of some of our previous Fall Gardening articles that you might have missed. Also I wanted to offer a few...
Jul 20, 2022 | Container Gardening, Education, Fall Season, Food, Gardening, Planting Prep, Recipes, Summer Season, Vegetables
When it’s hot outside I spend time inside planning my next garden. As I get older, I find that the heat and I don’t get along all that well, and in fact if I get overheated I get migraines. Ugh. So, I settle in with my pencils, garden journal, and...
Jul 5, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Gardening, Organic, Pest Control, Vegetables, Wildlife
Snails and slugs are very common in Florida due to our warm wet weather. We even have invasive snails, namely the Giant African Land Snail, which are a hazard to Florida’s very important agriculture-based industries. In this blog we’ll look at snails and...
Jun 22, 2022 | Education, Gardening, Landscaping, Organic, Pest Control, Vegetables, Wildlife
As we continue our series on common garden problems, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention caterpillars. These hungry little beasties suddenly appear, and eat their way through your plants like the Tasmanian Devil destroys things in old Looney Tunes shows. ...
Jun 7, 2022 | Composting, DIY, Education, Fall Season, Food, Gardening, Landscaping, Lawn Care, Native Plants, Organic, Pest Control, Planting Prep, Spring Season, Summer Season, Vegetables, Winter Season
Fungus is a surprise we never like getting. It always seems to me that one day my plants are just fine. Then next…ewww…there’s stuff on my once pristine leaves and they’re turning yellow or brown. Fungus spreads by spores that float through...
