In February of 2008, Haagen-Dazs launched a campaign to bring awareness to the plight of the honeybee. Complete with an absolutely adorable website,viral video and a donation program, the company helped spread the word about the problem with Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. CCD is when (for reasons we haven’t completely determined) honeybees abandon their [...]

I always forget how quickly arugula seedlings come up. Much like lettuce, you merely blink and they are sprouting. I was checking my seedlings a few days after planting for water. I pulled them off their perch on top of the refrigerator (I find that I get the most warmth up there) to find these [...]

Yesterday when I went about starting some seeds, I noticed some fungi growing in a new bag of supposedly sterile seedling mix. I knew you could sterilize soil in the oven, so I did some Google research and came across several methods of sterilizing them in the microwave. Since the oven method would take about [...]

Last night I was finally getting around to cutting and roasting some of the pumpkins leftover from Halloween in order to save the seeds. (Yes, I know that was in October. And Yes, I know it’s March. I just can’t kill them before their time). I was trying to determine what varieties I had, when [...]

The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why by Jeff Gillman is certainly worth keeping on your bookshelf. The book is a terrific guide in regards to “what not to do” in the garden. Examining old wives tales that have been passed on from gardener to gardener over the generations, Jeff tells [...]

The buds of my newly planted Pink Lady apple are finally starting to open. The Pink Lady was hybridized in Australia and is a cross between a Lady Williams and a  Golden Delicious. One of the later blooming apples here, it ripens in mid-October. I could say that I made my selection based on that [...]

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