Ahh, the bluebells are blooming…….. The trout lilies are too…….. bloodroot is shining snowy white……. and speaking of snow…….. it’s doing that too!!!!!!!
Archive of entries posted on March 2011
Starting Sweet Potato Slips
I’ve grown sweet potatoes in the garden for a few years but didn’t try to start my own slips until last year. A friend’s grandpa grew the biggest sweet potatoes–football size sometimes– and I tried to start slips according to his method. He said to take a big black bucket, like a feed bucket, and [...]
How to get rid of ladybugs in the house
I’ve never quite had this problem before, but since I’ve moved into the house I’ve been working on for 4 years, each winter I’m accompanied by lots of ladybugs. I mean LOTS of ladybugs. I don’t have aphids in the house, so the ladybugs aren’t welcome, and they bite, too! I believe they are coming [...]
Gotta start somewhere……
This past January I introduced 15 eight-week old girls to the Happy Hens. The introduction was kind of a smuggling operation though–during darkness. The older hens are supposed to wake up and think “oh, you’ve always been here”. Well, seems that is what happened because I’ve not witnessed any adverse pecking or gang-related activities so [...]
Get to know your veggies – Rutabaga
There are a few words in the English language that are, well, fun to say. Repeat after me….rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga. I think that’s a cool word for a very cool veggie. Combine a white potato, a sweet potato, and put a smidgen of turnip in there and you’ve got rutabaga. Being a root veggie, rutabagas [...]
Food for Thought
You can’t control the wind but you can adjust your sails.