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In this past weekend article on tomatoes, you didn’t answer the burning question…what did your brother do about the squirrels??????? They have already chomped the small tomatoes that were forming on our one plant and I know
It's like the wild animal kingdom around here lately. We discovered dozens of these newly hatched garden spiders (Argiope aurantia) crawling all over the sides of the compost bin at the community garden the other day.
I woke up this morning to the news that the mantids had begun hatching from the egg case (aka
As previously mentioned, I bought a praying mantis egg case at the
Look who showed up looking for lunch while I was out on the roof taking photos yesterday afternoon. He had absolutely no fear whatsoever. I could have reached out and touched him. I yelled and stomped
... a 'Black Brandywine' tomato taken before its time was up by an unknown mammalian critter. This kind of thing is like a right-of-passage for food gardeners. Unless you're gardening in a sterile bubble, you have probably
This post (I kind of hate that word to describe writing here) is going to be piecemeal, a quality that is indicative of my life right now as I float or rather scramble from one task to
The garlic mustard population is really getting out-of-hand at the community garden this year. I've discovered loads of it in unused areas of disturbed, lousy soil and it is expanding rapidly into the edges around plot beds.
They say that lightly brushing your hands against tomato leaves stimulates a growth hormone in the plant encouraging radial (aka stockier) growth. I'm still searching for a study that supports this but I chose to believe