Hummingbirds and evening

It's been a hummingbird circus around here - there are at least three ruby-throated hummingbirds currently whizzing around the old red oak, through the porch, visiting the feeder, etc.This evening, eating dinner on the porch, the whirr of wings was constant. I didn't manage to get a photo of a...

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Fall edibles

Newly planted fall garden next to the garage. This bed next to the garage has been sitting fallow for the summer. I've buried kitchen scraps, as they became available, about six inches under the surface, until about four weeks ago.On Labor Day, our unofficial beginning of fall, I planted...

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Native Plant Issues: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

This is a fall round up of current issues relating to native plants. They highlight some of the issues that native plant enthusiasts should address to move forward in our goal of more regionally appropriate natives being planted more widely. I. USDA: Good: USDA is sponsoring the first ever National...

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Garden vignettes

At this time of the year, I'm concentrating on harvesting (and preserving) vegetables, sowing seeds for fall veggies, worrying about getting the rest of the garden in shape (yikes! it's a lot of work!) and enjoying the unexpected pleasures of the garden.Here are a few images that I enjoyed this morning...

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Arbor Day Foundation & Florida...

The Arbor Day Foundation has played a big part to help people, cities and towns plant more trees since 1865 when J. Sterling Morton started this foundation. In Florida alone there are 165 Tree Cities. We've discussed this organization in these previous posts: Florida's Arbor Day: Third Friday in...

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Harvesting vegetables

It's amazing how small gardens can be productive.  I feel like I don't have very much space in my raised beds in the mountains, but coming back for the weekend, I harvested LOTS of beans, ripe peppers, and squash.  This after harvesting everything last weekend, including all the small beans and squash. The tromboncino and Tatume squash and the remainder of the tomatillos and tomatoes will...

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Fall planting

I'm a gardening answer person periodically on a call-in radio program for our university's Your Day Public Service Radio feed that goes throughout the state.  It's fun, and I'm glad to encourage gardeners of whatever knowledge level to learn more and have fun doing it.  I pitched in today as a last-minute guest for my friend and colleague, Bob Polomski (and substitute for a much more well-known...

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