by Daisy | May 8, 2012 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
Most mainstream advice on tomato care includes the recommendation to prune out tomato suckers. Suckers are those little leaf growths (little in the beginning, anyway–they can get huge) in the axil of the tomato plant. The axil is the name for the joint where...
by Daisy | May 5, 2012 | Conversation, Fencepost
I’m so slow getting into the Twitter. I started an account, put up a couple of tweets, kept forgetting to log in, etc. One thing stopping me is that I don’t know what people really like about Twitter and what they consider to be a worthwhile tweet. Any...
by Daisy | May 3, 2012 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
I know my friends up north are still getting freezing weather, but it’s tomato time here and it soon will be everywhere. Take heart! Here’s some tomato talk to get you in the mood and ready to tom. Twelve Tips For Terrific Tomatoes 1. The royal treatment....
by Daisy | Apr 29, 2012 | Crafts, Woodworking
Last year, as part of the preparation for our book, I had to build a raised bed and photograph the process step by step. It was four feet square, made from 8-foot lengths of 2×8’s, cut in half, very simple and basic. After I built it and filled it with a...
by Daisy | Apr 26, 2012 | Garden, Plants & Uses
In March of last year, I wrote a post about the first growth of ginseng from that winter’s planting of ginseng rootlets and seeds. It was my first attempt to grow ginseng, and I was thrilled that the rootlets had come to life. It was a hot, dry summer,...
