by Daisy | Jun 4, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
The winter before last, I cut all the blackberry canes nearly to the ground in the misguided understanding that they would recover in time to produce the following summer. They didn’t. In retrospect, I should only have cut the canes which had borne fruit that...
by Daisy | Jun 1, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
I have it on good authority that this is actual, real squash: It ‘s a White Lebanese. Maybe the wedding tent is working. Time will tell. I’m hand-pollinating any female blossoms I see and I haven’t witnessed any squash pest attacks so far. Of...
by Daisy | May 31, 2010 | Conversation, Fencepost
Last year I built a Top Bar Beehive and waited impatiently for a swarm of bees to admire my construction and lay claim to it. Well, I didn’t really think that would happen (???), but I was hoping to get a call from the local beekeepers association with a swarm...
by Daisy | May 28, 2010 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
How does a crop that goes from seed to harvest in only ten days sound? If you’re an impatient gardener like me and you check your garden the day after you sow it in the secret hope that your plants have grown, oh, knee-high, then this could be just your thing. It’s...
by Daisy | May 26, 2010 | Fencepost, Flops
I told myself I wasn’t going to grow squash this year. I have chronicled my squash woes in previous posts, including here, wherein I sustained a SBRI. Every time I try to grow squash I end up sacrificing a gargantuan amount of my limited garden space only to...
