Company Vegetable Gardens are Growing
The Wall Street Journal has a story today on how some small businesses are setting up company gardens where employees can do some tilling, build a little camaraderie, and take home some fresh produce on the cheap. Some are even implementing it as part of their corporate wellness program.
I think that’s pretty cool.
I never really [...]
Ground Squirrel Control
Ground squirrels are a huge pest, but there are steps you can take to control them. I’ve been battling an invading hoard of ground squirrels for the past year or so, and here’s how I learned to live with them.
If you don’t have ground squirrels where you live, count yourself among the lucky.
I don’t care [...]
Top garden blogs for a Mid-summer’s day
Today is midsummer’s day. We are exactly 46.5 days — take an hour or two based on where you are — through this year’s 93 day long season. (It’s also a full moon and penumbral lunar eclipse.)
For those of us in San Diego living west of the of the mountains that means a lot of [...]
Field of (Sunflower) Dreams
Here in our neck of northern San Diego county we have a lot of flower growers. We’re lucky enough to live across the road from one who happens to farm for the cut flower trade, so we’re treated to acres of an ever-changing assortment of fragrant, multi-colored blooms rolling along the hills.
Right now it’s sunflower [...]
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 [...]
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