April 24, 2018 Myth-buster: Start New Rose with Help of a Potato If you are into propagating plant cuttings (starting new plants or “cloning”), you’ll be interested in an experiment I’m conducting in my garden….
April 20, 2018 “Perennial” Does Not Mean Forever I had always thought the word “perennial” meant forever. I assumed that the general meaning of perennial “perpetual; everlasting; continuing; lasting indefinitely” also applied to…
March 22, 2010 Planting Snowpeas It’s not too early to plant snowpeas a.k.a. sugarpeas a.k.a edible pea pods. In fact, in some regions, some “early birds” planted snowpeas in…
March 19, 2010 Mustard-A Beautiful Cover Crop Mustard is blooming all over San Luis Obispo County. It’s one of the many cover crops that farmers and ranchers plant to smother weeds…
March 17, 2010 Shamrock is Really White Clover Happy St. Patrick’s Day all! Whether Irish or not, we all know that the shamrock is a symbol for Ireland. The shamrock is really…
March 14, 2010 Plant Wildflower Seeds Now I’ve tried to leave the computer and get outside to plant some wildflower seeds this morning. I’ve had the seeds since last year. It’s…
March 11, 2010 A Terrible Garden Blogger I’m a terrible garden blogger. A good blog (the word comes from the words “web log”) is an account of happenings or thoughts of…
March 1, 2010 March Gardening Along the Central Coast As some of my readers know, I live in a coastal village south of Big Sur and north of San Luis Obispo. I consider…
February 23, 2010 Monterey Pines-Beautiful and Dangerous Our little community sits on hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. What really makes this seaside cluster of homes unique, is that the houses in…
February 17, 2010 Harvesting Worm Castings from Bins I finally got around to harvesting worm compost from my worm bins on this beautiful sunny day. I’ve begun spring planting and I need…
February 10, 2010 Storing Rainwater for Summer Gardening We’ve gotten some blessed rain in California this year, thanks to El Nino conditions, and it looks like we may break a four-year drought….
February 5, 2010 Hen Talk I’ve been working on setting up another website on chickens. I don’t want to tell you the domain name yet as I’m not proud…
February 3, 2010 Artichokes Harvested I planted seeds of artichokes last winter in tiny six-packs. I really never expected them to sprout because most gardeners feel it is best…
January 30, 2010 A Break from Chickens and Gardening I know, I know. Chickens and gardening are my thing. But I need to take a break once in a while! We’ve had a…
January 27, 2010 Designing a Space for Chickens We do not live on a farm, nor do we want to turn over our garden to foraging chickens, so we designed a small…
