One man's adventure playing in his yard

How to make organic insecticidal soap

I use this recipe around the ranch all the time and it works great — as good as just about any insecticide, but without all the nasty chemical side effects — If you haven’t tried it, you should. It’s a great and inexpensive way to control pests.
Get Rid of garden pests naturally with this recipe [...]

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 [...]

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