Bullfrog? Bull Elephant is More Like it.
So early last spring I noticed this little hopper sunning himself on the lilypads in the center of the water garden.
“Cool” I thought and snapped a photo of him so I could look up what kind of frog he was. It turned out that he was a bullfrog that probably wound up in my pond [...]
All The President’s Vegetables
The New York Times is reporting that the White House will have a vegetable garden for the first time since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden in World War II. Sweet!
Only problem I can see from the map is that it’s mostly leafy green stuff. No tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans, etc. Not that I’m knocking lettuce and [...]
Garden Spring Cleaning To-Do List
Spring begins tomorrow (specifically at 16:43:47 Pacific Daylight Time according to my handy equinox calculator), which means it’s time to start cleaning and preparing the various gardens for the seasons ahead.
It was a fairly warm and dry winter here this year thanks to La Nina, so a lot of plants that are normally pretty quiet [...]
Turning St Patrick’s Day Corned Beef into Pastrami
I haven’t really written about it, but as you will come to discover, I am a huge barbeque-aholic. And I’m not talking stainless-steel gas grill (I have a gas grill in my house—it’s called a “stove”). No sir, I’m talking real-life wood burning BBQ.
I’ve got a workhorse Chargriller with smoker box attachment and enough room [...]
When is the Spring Equinox in your area?
I know, you’re just like me and you want to know the exact time of the coming equinox (or solstice) in your area. (Because this kind of knowledge has value. Really, it does.)
Fortunately somebody has taken all the work out of calculating when the event occurs in your area all the way through 2050. The [...]
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