Permaculture Gardener, Soil Health Grower and Light Farmer
Raising Native Plants, Flowers, Fruits and Veggies in My Yard at the Jersey Shore.
A quick update because the family is getting ready to celebrate Easter festivities and we’ve gotta get moving. The perennials are coming up in the rain garden (and everywhere else actually) and I need to make some more plant labels for what’s growing in there. I’ve decided to take out some of the newer thorny …
This experiment has been pretty successful so far! Isn’t it amazing what you can learn about on the internet? I had no idea how to do this until I started reading blog posts and watching youtube videos about it. Continuing the progress of the start of the project from the first post on Oct. 23rd …
This is the first time I’ve considered growing figs. My friend Theresa texted me yesterday to tell me she was pruning her fig trees before bringing them into the garage for the winter and asked if I wanted a few cuttings. How could I refuse?! I’m not sure of the variety, as she took branches …
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 …
The bad news is the Loquat definitely didn’t survive the winter. It was a mild winter, but zone 7 pushed this Japanese Plum too far. The good news is that a prime spot for a fruit tree doesn’t sit fallow for a moment in this yard. I picked up a Semi-Dwarf Red Bartlett Pear from …
In the beginning of the season I tried something I read online. If you take some store bought celery and cut off all the stalks and leave about 2” at the base, you can soak the base in water for a couple of days and then plant it and it will regrow. I did this …
My Gala and Granny Smith Apple trees were being attacked by aphids a couple of weeks ago. I sprayed them off the leaves with the hose and the ants were really putting up a tough fight, but there were lots of them and the leaves were starting to curl. Since this is the first season …
Did you know that if you cut the bottom off a bunch of store bought celery, put it in a shallow dish of water for a day and then plant it outside it will RE-GROW?! Neither did I, but I read about it online and gave it a try and it’s totally working. I’m amazed. …
