Keeping Pets Safe in the Garden We are proud to introduce the stars of today’s post: Kea, Sage and Joker who live in Colorado with Mary Beth. Emmie’s in California with Barbara. We figure that every gardener who has pets has also had a brush with disaster when their pooch or kitty has gotten into [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dogs’
Tuesday’s Tips — Pet Safe Gardens
Posted in California, Colorado, Garden, Organic Gardening, Tuesday's Tips, tagged California, Cats, Cocoa Mulch, Compost, Dogs, Gardening, Leptospirosis, Mulch, Organic, Pets in the Garden, Poisonous Plants on June 8, 2010 | 4 Comments »
On the Road, or Step Back, It’s a Bear!
Posted in Colorado, tagged Dogs, Durango, On the Road on May 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Mary Beth: The first day on the road is always a little hectic trying to get everything right. I always think I have it all set to go smoothly, but that’s usually not the case. This time I found myself rummaging through the car looking for the cat food, the leashes, and the phone charger. [...]
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 | 6 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 [...]
Garden Dreams
Posted in Block Island, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Blossoms, Deer, Dogs, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Island, Ocean, Plants, Roses, Seedlings, Summer, Vegetable Garden on August 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Barbara: Once upon a time my parents dreamed of a place where they could live by the sea with their five children during lazy summers. So in the winter of 1964 my mom pored over the rental ads in the Sunday New York Times. She found a tiny ad for a summer cottage on Block [...]
Garden Critters
Posted in California, Critters, Garden, tagged Birds, California, Dogs, Garden, Gardening, Lizards, Spring, Towhee on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
B: In even the smallest gardens, amazing things happen all the time. Last week we had one of those perfect gardening days here in Southern California — blue skies, warm, wispy breezes. Gardening on days like this brings about a kind of meditative state, a peculiar slowing down of time that creates focused alertness. In [...]
Bees? Anybody See Some Bees?
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Hive, tagged Beehive, Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Dogs, Ferry, Island, Ocean, Sea on April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
B: Remember yesterday when Mary Beth said that barring unforeseen circumstances we would have bees today? Well, we have unforeseen circumstances — sort of. Actually it was an assumption that got us, as they often do. We assumed that they’d be coming by mail, but the bees are being picked up tomorrow by an Island [...]
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