Insecticidal Soap as an Alternative to Chemical Insecticide I was recently asked what insecticidal soap recipe I use on my plants, since I don’t like using chemicals. This is a recipe that I got from talking to my local County Extension office, mixed with information I got off the internet a long time ago and… Read More Homemade Insecticidal Soap Spray
Well…things have changed. I am working in the church garden, but NOT the community garden. Hubby and I decided that that would be just a bit too much especially with the traveling we wanted to do this summer. We made a great decision. I would have been overwhelmed. We just returned from our 2 weeks… Read More Gardening Update – July 20, 2012
Well, there it is folks. The big field at the church garden. This is the empty (and intimidating -it’s so huge when you are hand planting) field. After a few hours today we have four long rows now planted out in potatoes, two in sweet corn, and three with a mix of carrots, beets, bush… Read More Church Garden – The Empty Intimidating Field
I planted both peppermint and chocolate mint in my divided herb planter. Now I have mint running out of my ears so I have been brainstorming on what to do with my abundance of the herb. A little research shows that this delicious herb has lots of good for you vitamins and minerals. If you… Read More 10 Great Ways to Use Fresh Mint!
It is almost that time…the true planting date for our area! This quick reference frost chart gives you a pretty good idea of when that will be in some major U.S. cities. Our date is May 10 according to the chart. That’s an average, remember. But it is a pretty close guess. In the Boise,… Read More Garden Update and What is Coming Up Next
The tomatoes, as noted in the last post, were turning into giants. And, I think, flaring my allergies. So I have taken all of the large ones out to the garage and will begin to harden them off. This is a process where you put them outside during the day and bring them in at… Read More Garden Update + Using Walls of Water with Tomato Cages
The tomato seedlings have grown. And grown. And grown. And they are really quite large now. I am seriously considering putting at least a few of them out in the garden in walls of water. It may be a touch early, but they are really making my son’s room a crazy greenhouse of sorts. … Read More The Tomato Seedlings are turning into Giants!
So I put the finished planter box on the end of the deck next to my little flower box for now. We drilled five smallish holes in the bottom of each section, filled each with about 1-2 inches of small rocks (thanks Jaynell!) and topped with Miracle Gro soil. I kept the plants down a… Read More The Finished Planter Box
Ta-da! My sweet hubby made me a new planter because I couldn’t find what I was looking for at the store. We bought some boards from Home Depot. They were called 1×12 -4 #2 common boards. Pine? Untreated anyway. They were $5.83 apiece. He simply screwed three of them together and then cut… Read More Chocolate Mint is an herb, honest.
I lost several plants. The first were the radishes. They came up beautifully. They grew fast. But they have fallen victim to my not so green thumb. They weren’t developing right and I got irritated and pulled them all out and planted a houseplant instead. Cuz that’s just the way I roll. I think in… Read More A Sad, Sad Thing Happened