by Daisy | Jun 12, 2009 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
The cool thing about this plan, other than the companion planting and spacing, is the use of our “tater boxes” which temporarily deepen any raised bed–allowing your to do this in a new bed next year. You will need: 1 electric drill or hammer 4...
by Daisy | Jun 9, 2009 | Crafts, Knitting
These are sort of fingertip wash mitts. Compared to the big, luxury mitts they dry more quickly and don’t drip as much while washing at the sink–you know that drip down to the elbows? The textured stitch makes for good scrubbiness. They measure about 4...
by Daisy | Jun 1, 2009 | Beginner Gardens, Garden
Start reading about tomato pests and diseases and you begin to wonder how any tomato ever makes it at all. After weeks of episodic rain my tomato plants are growing like kudzu, but I noticed something this morning that sent me looking for fungicide recipes: yellowing...
by Daisy | May 29, 2009 | Barnyard, Other Critters
I remember the family beehives from childhood– smoldering cotton sending puffs of smoke from granddad’s smoker, jars of comb submerged in amber, chewing the honeyed wax like gum. I always knew I wanted to continue the tradition but I thought living in a...
by Daisy | May 28, 2009 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
SUCCESSION PLANTING is the term gardeners use to refer to planting something else in place when a previous crop is all finished.To pull this off effectively, you need a few things:1. A diagram of your garden with zones marked off and numbered/lettered/named for old...
