If I told you that I found an earwig at between 5 and 6 inches would you be horrified? Well, here’s the proof… Okay – not quite what you were thinking, but this boyo is still plenty big for
Month: September 2011
Nothing to be sniffed at
Sometimes cute things come in small packages, but in the case of our Master Gardener Advanced Training last week, the biggest cutie was working with the packages! Hawkeye is a rescue dog that has been trained to sniff out vegetable
Potty mouthed gardeners
We gardeners just love, love, love manure. Man, we just can’t get enough of it! Horse manure, steer manure, chicken manure, bat guano – we love it all. It is quite apparent that the soil in my raised beds is
It’s all about the cut-backs
Every time I look at my native plant garden, something about it thrills me. It’s provided blossom all year long. At this time of year plants struggle to survive. Heat is at its all time high and water at its
Gardening and the Apocalypse
We used to watch so many cops series like CSI and Criminal Minds that it seemed a waste of time to turn on the telly unless someone died in the first five minutes. Now we’ve upped the stakes and have
