Subject: Storing Garlic
Storing Garlic
May 29th, 2023 at 7:07 am EDTHappy Memorial Monday! Hoping your enjoying a glorious holiday weekend! We sure did. It rained lots all weekend, so we got more research and writing done. Which leads us to sharing some of that here with you. After writing about curing garlic, which ...
Okra & Garlic
May 28th, 2023 at 9:33 am EDTGreetings from a soggy and cool NC weekend! Hoping you and your garden are faring well. The rain is wonderful and the plants and trees are so verdently green and are taking over everything everywhere! Some our gardening tasks this week included curin ...
Hardiness, Heat, & Soil Temps
May 24th, 2023 at 8:50 pm EDTGreetings Friend! Sharing a few resources, should you be interested or in need. We learned a few things that we didn't know that we didn't know as we researched these topics, so sharing here in case you're interested: Hardiness Zones Map (learned a f ...
Edible Basil Seeds!
May 22nd, 2023 at 9:10 am EDTGarden Greetings, Friend! Hoping you enjoyed your weekend and are off to a great start! As you know by now, we love learning and growing... growing and learning. And it seems that the more we learn, the more we discover there is to learn about the wo ...
Calendula, aka Pot Marigold
May 20th, 2023 at 8:59 am EDTGood Morning! You may already be out in the garden... mornings in the garden are the absolute best! Planting of various things are going on each week, and there's lots of lemon balm and mint to harvest and dry, so the dehydrator will soon be humming ...
Avoid Metal Hummingbird Feeders
May 18th, 2023 at 6:15 am EDTGarden Greetings! We’ve been using the attractive glass and copper hummingbird feeders, until now. We’ve changed them out just this weekend after discovering an issue that caused us to research whether metal hummingbird feeders are safe for our b ...
Red Plastic Mulch for Tomatoes
May 16th, 2023 at 9:23 am EDTThis is a snapshot (or 2 or 4! 😊) from last week on installing this for our tomato beds. If you're interested in the pros and cons of red plastic mulch for tomatoes, you may find the article and accompanying video Coleman did helpful. Feel free to ...
Spider Mite Predators
May 15th, 2023 at 5:26 pm EDTSpider Mite PredatorsRecently, a GardensAll friend mentioned that she had spider mite problems afflicting her plants indoors and out. So that problem sent us into the research on spider mite predators. Although chemical pesticides can be effective ag ...
Wild Lettuce (and Look-alikes)
May 9th, 2023 at 6:06 am EDTEdible wild lettuce (Lactuca spp.) is a wild plant native to Europe that has spread throughout other parts of the world. Typically considered a weed plant, it is also known as “opium lettuce”. Some think that wild lettuce is toxic because of it ...
Wood Sorrel
May 8th, 2023 at 11:12 am EDTAs you probably know by now, we love discovering new (to us) plants on our woodland walks, (as well as the weeds in our yard and garden)! One recent discovery for our area in the Piedmont of North Carolina, zone 7, is this one little patch of Oxalis ...