Growing Lettuce
While lettuce is not an item in our Charley’s Vegetables line, it has an honorary position as an easy-to-grow early season vegetable. Lettuce is a hardy annual that can tolerate light frosts and can be easily grown from seed or transplants. Lettuce need sunny locations early but can tolerate some…
Soil Testing
Here is a great article on soil testing by Janet Carson with the UA Cooperative Extension Service. Soil is an important part of growing a garden, yet it is often taken for granted. People spend thousands of dollars planning a landscape, buying the plants, but without a decent soil to…
Friend or Foe???
Sometimes in nature, beauty and danger go hand in hand in both animals and plants. Take for instance the Poison Dart Frog. It looks so friendly with its bright yellow color, you can’t help but want to reclaim your youth and play with the little frog. But just touching this…
After the Frost…
Old Man Winter really can be a nuisance sometimes. Blowing in, making our hands all dry and our hair all brittle, forcing us to turn up the heat and drag out our winter clothes, and picking on poor defenseless flowers in our garden. Of course, he also brings brilliant fall…
Shoo Frost, Don’t Bite Me!!!
Old Man Frost just purchased a first class ticket today, and with his bags packed full of ice, snow, freezing temperatures, and the occasional blizzard, he boarded his plane and is now headed our way. Internal Winter Weather Alarms have been reported to be going off in the minds of…
Attention Please! The Queen has Arrived…
Picture Courtesy of Wikipedia Once upon a time, in the Orient far away, a Queen was born. Her name? Camillia. No delicate flower, Camillia was known to flourish in cooler months, boasting stunning colors and dazzling onlookers clear into April. But one day, she grew tired of her surroundings and…
Double the Spooooooky Fun
Costume? Check. Flashlight? Check. Giant bag to fill up with free candy? Check!!!! I’ve even got a back-up bag too just in case my first bag gets full. Now I just have to decide if I want to trick-or-treat on Saturday or Sunday??? Or maybe I should just go crazy…
Move Over Summer, Fall Has Arrived!!!
Ahhh, feel that crisp cool breeze, stock up on that Halloween candy, and take in that stunning view as the leaves begin to turn shades of gold, orange, and red… I don’t know about all of you, but after that ultra-hot Summer, I’m thinking Fall has never looked so good!!! …
Pansy Pontifications
I like pansies almost as much as I don’t like mums. They have all the attributes that mums lack and their only drawback is that they don’t like it hot. What other flower can you plant that will last for seven to even nine months? You can plant them in…
Planting Pansies With Preschoolers
We got some help today planting pansies at Tate Elementary School. Becky, David and I got there early. Beck and David did all the heavy lifting. Then it was time for the kids.