Winter: a good time to remove invasive plants

Wedelia or creeping oxeye daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata): a beautiful invader. Less lawn...When we moved into our house here in North Florida, we let several areas of lawn grow out. I've written about this several times. See From lawn to woods: a retrospective, for what has happened out front.Here's...

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Spaghetti squash recipes & planting

A store-bought spaghetti squash contained a bunch of sprouted seeds.How long had it been sitting there in the store?I was craving a spaghetti squash, so we bought one. The rind seemed unusually hard and quite a number of the seeds had sprouted. I try not to waste squash seeds of any kind, so if I'm...

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Terrible taro and other invasives

The taro removed from the bulkhead garden. Removing invasives, sooner rather than laterJust this last April, we redid this weird bulkhead space to fix a slumping problem. At the time, I thought I'd removed all the taro roots and corms (Colocasia esculenta) and the soil we used to fill in the space was...

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Removing lawn and other adventures

Special Summer Appearance: My presentation is "Organic Gardening—You can do it!"Aug. 12th 10am at Fleming Island Library in Clay County. 1895 Town Center Blvd, Orange Park, FL 32003(about 7.5 miles south of I295 & Rt 17 exit)This event is open to the public and has been coordinated by The Garden...

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