What I think about when I’m not out in the Garden, but my mind is still on it and not necessarily in a planning way.
“It sounds dumb, but sometimes I think that I garden just so that I can compost. It’s actually really interesting and fun to see a bunch of dead junk turn into pure black gold.”
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If you watch 1 gardening video all year, make it this one!
A complete guide to soil microbiology.
I’m a bit excited that both some of the rewilding efforts we’ve put in, as well as the lack of time to make things a bit tidier than usual seems to be attracting a broader variety of birds that don’t just simply buzz through our yard heading east to our neighbor that keeps feeders out year round. Continue reading “Observing more birds hanging out this year”
“If your plan is for one year, plant rice.
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.”
“You can only learn so much from a book and from a video. You have to get your hands dirty.”
–Stefan Sobkowiak
“THE KEY to YOUR Permaculture Orchard or Fruit Planting is… ‘JUST START’”
Continue reading “Education is good, but practical experience helps you learn more directly”
If flowers can
teach themselves
how to bloom after
winter passes,
so can you.
~ Noor Shirazie, Springtime Continue reading “Springtime”
I fell in love with this book when I first borrowed it from our local library. Yes, it was older and a handful of practices within it had since been improved upon within gardening communities, but more often than not, the lessons and strategies within were still sound. When I realized how many times I was borrowing it, I tracked down a copy and bought it. Continue reading “Remember The 2 Hour Garden book?”
If you’re gardening on a budget and need an idea for a thrifty bed border that isn’t plastic, save your TP and paper towel rolls. (Don’t use the bleached type if you can help it.) Continue reading “Compostable bed borders”
“The mere fact of the variability of the seasons should be sufficient to convince the most doubting that what may be right one year may be wrong next. If a calendar of garden events is kept it will be readily seen by reference what a difference there can be in annual happenings.”
— Harry Pierce and Alec Mawson Shrubs 1935
This year has been challenging to many folks on all sorts of levels the world over. Now that we’re a week away from Thanksgiving here in America, I realized I also had many things to be grateful for this year.
Continue reading “Pondering what to be thankful for in 2020”