letters from the wilderness
A few days late.... Grow cuttings from the garden for next year - I've been having some success starting cuttings from my garden for next year. Generally, I dip the cutting in rooting hormone and pop it into the soil. I saved the containers from plants I purchased this year to use for this purpose.... Continue Reading →
This will be the first of several updates. After starting this post, I made additional changes. Such is gardening life. First of all, I decided the netting on the crop cages was too dense for sunlight, not to mention pollinators. However, I still had the deer issue to consider. I removed the netting and switched... Continue Reading →
I continue to wrap my brain around the differences between gardening in southwest Virginia zone 7b versus suburban Philly zone 7b. Here in VA everything starts just a bit earlier, plus there is a hot, dry season during the summer that we didn't have up in PA. Unfortunately, my brain still operates on my Philly... Continue Reading →
2 dogs and a house 