A Chunk of Lawn Becomes a Native Garden

The showy tickseed coreopsis decorates the edge of the front meadow. Native bees & butterflies love it!The view from my office has been improved dramatically since I removed a 12 x 14-foot section of lawn and added native plants. "Last September I began this set of garden adventures with the purchase...

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Spiderwort and carolina rose

I've been busy doing other things, aside from gardening, but have been enjoying the lush green of spring, without the hot dryness that summer will bring.  My gardening companion and I had an opportunity to talk about wildflowers and gardening with native plants last week on Your Day (listen...

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Bye-bye Broccoli: Hello Summer!

Good-bye broccoli! What a bounty we've enjoyed. From the initial harvesting of the main curds (heads) at the end of November through the endless come-again spears until last week, there have been more than 40 harvests! Broccoli sprouts from the root. I'd never seen or noticed this behavior before. ...

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Only two public events left on the book tour

Talking to people at the Wildflower Festival in Delandabout my vegetables and my books. A fun event.The "Flowered Shirt" Book TourJune is upon us and that means that this whirlwind book tour is almost over, and of the six or seven dates left, only two are public.1) June 10th I'll be speaking to the...

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An almost full moon

An sojourn outside this evening as it was becoming dark surprised me with an almost full moon.  It was high in the sky as dusk descended, so was easily visible. I remembered that the April full moon hike was on the 25th -- the full moon date for May is also the 25th, although tonight's moon looms...

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What's New

So Kids, took my mom and my sister out to the GreenHouse. Boy was that fun, the weather was perfect and it was such a lovely country drive. It was part of my mom's Mother's Day gift. We got a lot of really great plants, here are a list of some of them. Thats one thing that I really love about Spring,...

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Swapping out cool-season to warm-season veggies

It's been a strange spring, for sure.  But it's finally time to harvest the last of the greens to make room for the tomatoes, peppers, and squash in my mountain raised beds. The early planted tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers have survived, but they vary in how they've coped with the unseasonably low temperatures, too.The early spring cole crops (direct-seeded) are bolting, although the lettuce...

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