JerseyShoreLisa 
Protecting Apples with Bags Instead of Spray We’ve got the first real crop of apples this year on the Crimson Gala tree. I didn’t thin them as much as I should have because I had read about June drop and I wasn’t sure the toll it would take. Not many fell at all. I would … Read more
This is my unsolicited, very satisfied customer testimonial and review for American Shed Builders. After shopping around for wooden sheds cork, I decided to order ours from American Shed Builders http://americanshed.com/ based in Old Bridge, NJ. They had good Angie’s list and facebook reviews and I liked that I was ordering directly from a NJ … Read more
Dang, I forgot to take a picture of the Bonfire peach tree that’s blooming out there. I think I should always do my first garden photo shoot and spring blog post when the peach blooms. There’s just enough going on out there to make things interesting. The garlic showed up in the keyhole garden a … Read more
Last night the temperature got down to 32*. I’m sure it will bounce back up again but there was frost on my car this morning when I was getting the kids ready for school so it’s officially getting cold at the Jersey Shore. Time for coats, time to put the veggie gardens to bed for … Read more
It’s June in mynjgarden and the livin’ is easy! I’ve been harvesting bowl after bowl of salad greens and some of them have started to flower. There’s plenty left though and most of it was self seeded from the ones I let go to seed last year. I’m running low on mulch but have the … Read more
Mom stays here often these days and brings our dear, energetic, 2 1/2 year old yellow lab, VANNA. Vanna lives in capital letters. She’s hilarious, willful, crazy, smart and a big pain in my garden’s butt. Yesterday, we put up a knee high fence to keep her rampages contained to the “lawn” instead of the … Read more
The back yard veggie gardens used to run parallel to the fence and if you view older posts on this site, you can see that setup. I set them up that way originally so they would run north/south and have the best sun exposure according to the garden books I had read. Over the last … Read more
I had Harlequin Bugs on my broccoli in the back yard. I’d never seen those before. They weren’t on all the plants, just the ones that didn’t look like they were doing well. Were they stressed before or after the bugs paid a visit? I’ll say they were stressed before the bugs. I cut them … Read more