Mary Beth: Winter is coming, I think, and even though the weather continues to be unusually warm for this time of year, I’ve been getting the bees ready.
So, what about the bees? Every time I tell someone that Ray and I are moving back to Colorado (Ch, Ch, Changes), I hear this question. I’ll say, [...]
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Butterfly!
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Butterfly, tagged Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, Butterfly, Butterfly Garden, Butterfly Plants, Caterpillars, Chrysalis, Flowers, Gardening, Larva, Mexico, Milkweed, Monarch Butterfly, Nectar, Pollen, Pollinators on November 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mary Beth: Is there anything more amazing than a butterfly, especially a monarch? From its very beginning as a tiny larva, to the chrysalis, to the magnificent winged creature migrating thousands of miles to begin the cycle anew, there isn’t a moment of its life cycle that isn’t breathtakingly beautiful.
Swamp Milkweed grows wild on the [...]
Benefits of Organic Gardening
Posted in Block Island, California, Critters, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Bee Habitat, Birds, Block Island, Bumble Bee, California, Crab Spider, Flowers, Frogs, Garden, Gardening, Honey Bee, Honeybee, Lizard, Organic, Organic Gardening, Peeper Frog, Plants, Towhee, Vegetable Garden on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Mary Beth & Barbara: Here’s another post where we’re going to let the pictures tell the story. All we really want to say is that the rewards for not using chemical pesticides are many. Some are obvious, like just knowing that you’re not adding to the chemical load in the environment. Others are more subtle [...]
Ch-Ch-Changes
Posted in Block Island, Colorado, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Blossoms, Blue Star Amsonia, Changes, Colorado, Flowers, Garden, Garden Planning, Gardening, Island, Poppies, Raised Bed Gardening, raised beds, Transplanting, Vegetable Garden on September 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mary Beth: I love this time of year. It’s a time when I like to make a few changes in the garden beds. Some work, some don’t and, while the main bones of the garden will always be the same, it’s fun to have a few surprises to look forward to the next year. And [...]
Taking the Cure
Posted in Block Island, Cooking, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Basil, Beets, Block Island, Carrots, Garden, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Organic, Recipe, Roma Tomato, Soup, Squash, Swiss Chard, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mary Beth: Ray and I were under the weather on Labor Day weekend, so I decided to make a nutritious soup using all the wonderful vegetables in my garden. As I was picking the ingredients for the soup, I was thinking about the article I read on the Garden Rant blog where the author mentions [...]
WTF’s Eating My Tomato Plants?
Posted in Block Island, Critters, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Dogs, Garden, Garden Pests, Gardening, Organic, Plants, Tomato Hornworm, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on September 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mary Beth: Oh how wonderful it is to be standing in the garden looking at those beautiful tomatoes, feeling proud of my babies and thinking of all the delicious meals I’m going to make. Mmm.
Wait! Something catches my eye. WTF?! Something is chewing big chunks of my plants! My tomatoes!
A shiver runs down my spine [...]
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