Finally! After many attempts, over quite a few years, to create a toad house, I finally have a resident. Or at least a visitor.
While I've cobbled together many large rocks, planks and whatnot…
Squishing Colorado potato beetles and larvae by hand.
Dumping slugs and tomato hornworm caterpillars in buckets of water.
Putting the iridescent, invasive jumping worms (these things are DEVASTATING for your soil's health) in containers to…
What critter might have pooped this poop? With little pebbles in it? The original shape is somewhat mangled by rain and prodding sticks.
Zone 7b.
Left on a driveway.
Lasting for 10 days or more with…
I find it mentally grueling to get motivated to get to my garden plot. Once there, I can be there for hours. No problem.
But growing cucumbers for the first time has me motivated…
While I delight in this time of year, when the earth warms more and more by the day, and the much-missed green comes out in full force, I lament to inform you (those…
The hubris I have experienced in believing I could contain the yard weeds -- by dint of labor and pulling them by the roots, a few focused chemical applications and sheer determination --…
If you haven't yet discovered the show, The Americas on NBC, treat yourself!
Exquisite photography, storytelling, music.
Phenomenal insights into nature. Beautifully told, shown, shared.
This is not your mother's National Geographic show, or if…
I know it’s crazy cold out now and being outside gardening probably isn’t high on your list. Still, spring is but a month away, and now is the time many a gardener start…
Here's an article I wrote for a local gardening newsletter.
Beyond Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
As you’re finishing up your spring garden plans with vegetables a-plenty on your mind, consider creating some space…
Yet another reason to love living in Maryland!
Maryland is a cult, not a state. (That's the name of a FB group, and I rather like it.)
Kudos to the creator (lower case C).
I had heard some time ago that old mountains (and in mountain years, that's a lot of years, centuries, millennia and aeons) are lower in elevation, eroded and rounded while new mountains tend…
For those concerned and/or interested, you can count the Columbia Newburns in for having killed at least 50 adult spotted lantern flies -- a prolific breeder and invasive-as-heck bug -- in the last…