Here in the Southeastern U.S., we've had a very usual year weather-wise. Way more rain than normal last summer, then bone-chilling cold in the winter.It's made for some interesting losses and die-backs.So, it was a reminder about how extreme our variations were over the past year to read this piece in the NY Times about the impact that extreme cold has had on midwest gardens. It's telling...
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Friday, 9 May 2014
What's New
Okay Kids, So I talked last spring about what is my favorite place to shop at for such a large variety of vegetables and flowers. Again I went to Baker's Acres and got some NEW Varieties. (Click here for last years new veggies).Juane Flame, Big Zac, Ananas Noire, Abe Lincoln, Tomande, LipstickIve never...
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Vegan Dandelion Pesto
Okay Kids, what about those dandelions? They are beautiful...okay take a second look and really look at their beauty. Right you see it now! I was weeding the garden and looking at all of the dandelions that I was throwing away. I am sure that I can do something with all of this "waste". What about Pesto,...
Monday, 5 May 2014
Conservation, Ecosystem gardening, Garden writing, Ginny Stibolt, Growing edibles, native plants, Sustainability, Wildlife
A field trip, a Florida native plant hero, & pasta salad
I traveled over to Gainesville on May Day to meet with my editor at University Press of Florida and Marjorie Shropshire who will be illustrating my third book, "The Art of Maintaining a Native Landscape." It was a productive meeting and good progress is being made on the book--it's currently out...
Sunday, 4 May 2014
76, cucumber, How 2's, marketmore, seeds
Seeds this Spring - Cucumbers
Hey Kids, last year we had so many cucumbers. They were prolific. More than I knew what to do with them. Pickles were made out of them, relishes, salads. Even though I have never been any good at zucchini, my cucumbers produced more than my zucchini ever did. Unfortunately, with all the wet weather...
Friday, 2 May 2014
Golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
It's hard not to like Golden ragwort (aka Golden Groundsel) = Packera aurea.It's a native across the Eastern U.S. It flowers early in spring, supporting some early pollinators, providing a brilliant yellow in woodlands, etc.It's a exuberant colonizer, and successful self-seeder, so grows prolifically...
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Spring
Okay Kids, spring is one of my favorites. I love taking pics of the yard because it only happens once.Here in Ohio, we have had a strange one. Everything is so Late 3 weeks ago we got SNOW!And things were just starting to come up too. look at these baby radishes! Just covered with snow!My helleborus...