I Want To Try This Homemade Mosquito Trap This Spring And Summer
I’m sure you know by now how much I like to reuse, recycle and repurpose things rather than putting them in that garbage bag to be taken to our local landfill. This little experiment involves a 2 litre...
View ArticlePlanted Six Different Kinds Of Tomato Seed In Trays Today
It’s the middle of April and I’ve been itching to plant something but that’s going to be at least another month so I decided to plant some tomato seeds today. I’m looking out my office window and...
View ArticleChionodoxa Forbesii. You Mean Glory of The Snow, Right?
We have lived here for nearly eight years and still have flowers blooming that we have no idea their name. They are just beautiful and that was good enough for me. However if I want to have more of...
View ArticleAcid or Alkaline? Bought A Mini Soil pH Tester Today
At least once a year I think about testing our garden soil to see what the pH balance is then I get onto something else and it slips my mind for another year. I can dig in one spot of our yard and the...
View ArticleSo Many Tulips And So Little Time
After our long cold winters I sure look forward to spring each year and the tulips that pop out of our yard at this time of year. This little tulip was the first to open in the front of our house and a...
View ArticleWas A Good Time to Visit The Co-op Country Store Moncton
The window boxes Jenny uses for her Petunias got hit pretty hard the last rain we had, well down pour would be a better choice of words. Anyways it rained so hard that they were flooded and even dirt...
View ArticleTiny Tim Tomatoes And Cucumbers Growing In Dresser Drawers
I found some dresser drawers stacked in a dumpster one morning on our way back from Saturday morning breakfast. We made a couple of trips bringing them all home but so worth the effort to re-purpose...
View ArticleWeek #1: Hugelkultur Bed Flowers: Coreopsis Tinctoria: Plains Coreopsis
This pretty yellow flower on the left looks like some one put a dab of strawberry jam in the center of each one is called "Plains Coreopsis" or "tickseed". I learned this from my online friend from the...
View ArticleMade Four Quarts of Stewed Tomatoes
We didn’t have the best vegetable garden this year due to flooding and continual rains that didn’t allow our veggie garden to dry like it should so the roots were soggy most of the summer. I was...
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