Harvesting the Garlic
Last week I harvested the garlic. As a first step I pulled it up out off the ground. Then I brushed off most of the dirt and trimmed off the stalks. The garlic is now drying outside in a covered … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Gardening
Garden Soil Screen
The Man of the House made this handy dandy soil screen. We use it to get rocks, plants, roots and everything else out of the soil when we’re putting in new garden beds. The Man of the House put the … Continue reading →
Junior’s New Growth
I’ve been waiting for a good opportunity to give Junior the lemon tree his next treatment of white oil. But the days have either been too hot or too rainy. In the meantime there is little or no scale. The … Continue reading →
Garlic Ready to Harvest
Have you ever tried to take a photo of garlic? It’s hard to make it look interesting. Here’s my attempt: The whole point behind taking the photo was to show that the garlic is almost ready to harvest. The garlic … Continue reading →
Lemon Tree – Second Treatment for Scale
Earlier I described my plan for ridding my lemon tree of scale. I waited 16 days to apply the second treatment of white oil. Ideally I would have done this sooner but we were having a rainy patch. Before I … Continue reading →
Cabbage Success
A few days ago I described how we’d treated the cabbage patch with slug bait. It was the first time we’d tried it and it looks like it’s working. We harvested our first head of cabbage today. It was nicely … Continue reading →
Cabbage
In years past we’ve had a problem with slugs getting to our cabbage. This year we sprinkled some slug bait among the cabbages. The bait contains a small amount of iron phosphate. It’s harmful to slugs and fairly easy on … Continue reading →
Tomatoes
The Man of the House did it. As promised he planted tomatoes right by our front steps. What’s that behind the tomato you ask? That’s my little stone bunny.
Continue reading →White Oil
Earlier I wrote about Junior the lemon tree and his problem with scale. When I took a closer look at Junior I noticed that he was covered with things that looked like white grains of sand. There were also tiny … Continue reading →
The Stump
Several hours ago The Man of the House went outside to “do a little gardening”. He was outside for ages so I went to check on him. His little bit of gardening turned into removing a stump beside our front steps. … Continue reading →