Fall Garden Chores

I like Summer because there isn’t much to do other than harvest and weed a little. Fall and Winter are when we have the most chores. Fortunately after all the hard work we did last year with double digging our beds means we have less to do this year. Right now we’re cleaning out our…

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Dogs and Gardens part 2

Our yard had been completely overrun by squash for pretty much the entire season. We could barely get to one of our herb beds and reaching the second herb bed was completely out of the question. For those that aren’t familiar with squash vines, they have lots of little spines all over them, and while…

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Squash Pest

MotherHen68 from The Chicken Coop asked us: Any suggestions on how to prevent my squash from getting those nasty green worms that demolish the entire plant? I’m guessing these are squash vine borers and the offending egg layer is a brown moth. I’d rather not use poison, but I’m fed up. Thanks!  ———————————————————— It sounds…

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What to do with Extra Herbs

We got a question from Jen from Diet Plaid: I have a ton of mint, lavender, and rosemary in my garden. I’ve never done any of them so I’m not sure if I should dry them or freeze them or what before it gets too cold outside. Halp? ————————————————————– LAVENDER, MINT & ROSEMARY_MG_8874, originally uploaded…

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It’s Time for Fall Crops

OK, it’s an old photo that was taken at our old house in Napa, but it’s the last time we’ve grown cabbage. And it was good cabbage. This year, however, we’re growing a LOT more cabbage – 3 beds each with a different variety. I’m hoping to have enough to make sauerkraut now that I’ve…

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Monday’s Guests – Organic Fertilizer | How to Use and Make Organic Fertilizer

 This week’s post is by Marco from Livetogarden.com which is a fantastic site for learning all things gardening from outdoor living to garden design to organic gardening. Not to mention the website itself is gorgeous! I love all the photos so go check it out!  —————————————————————– As we become more and more focused on maintaining…

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How to Rotate your Beds

B from the blog Epona Report asked a great question about how to rotate through your crops. Do you do a crop of fall veggies? Or do you just let everything go fallow over winter? I live in Florida, zone 8b, and I feel it just gets too hot too quickly for some of my…

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