Heard Six Blue Jays In Garden At Daybreak
The most blue jays I’ve ever seen in our yard is two. I usually see them patrolling our home garden keeping other birds away, although they seem fine with the robins we have living here. This morning...
View ArticleGetting Started With Indoor Vegetable Gardening
Using Recycled Milk Cartons For My Indoor Herb Garden I just started an indoor herb garden and was able to recycle milk cartons as containers. They don’t look as cute as fancy pots but they serve a...
View ArticleSo Enjoying Our Clematis Blossoms
Every time I look at my beautiful Clematis blossoms I’m reminded that I could have killed them last fall when I cut them back, just a little more than I had planned. The Clematis we have in our raised...
View ArticleHigh Winds Brought Down Our Tomato Plants
Vegetable gardening is definitely a growing experience and it’s not always a great experience, especially when you wake to find the tomato plants in your vegetable garden are lying on the grown after a...
View ArticleWestmorland Horticultural Society Annual Garden Show
It’s Wednesday and I had a wordless Wednesday set of photos I was going to add to my blog today but I just learned that we have a horticultural society here in Moncton called the Westmorland...
View ArticleThe Risks of DIY Tree Removal
See our tiny little vegetable garden on the left. Those trees on the east side of the garden and block direct sunlight until well after 10am so they have to go. However, I am 60 and haven’t cut a tree...
View ArticleSunny Saturday Morning Moncton, New Brunswick
It’s so nice to get up with the bird, before they are drowned out by the sounds of trucks, cars and bikes burning up the pavement. Listening to the birds chirping at one another while I sip a hot fresh...
View ArticleSave Money, Give Your Gardening Tools Some TLC
Money is always tight so I don’t always like spending money on gardening tools but I love shopping for gardening supplies, so it’s important to me that I take care of the garden tools we have. It’s fun...
View ArticleGrowing Fat Pumpkins For Pies And Halloween
This is the first year I’ve grown pumpkins. Usually we just buy a pumpkin for Halloween. As part of my membership with Mike The Gardener’s Seed of the Month Club I received winter squash and pumpkins....
View ArticleOrganic Vegetable Gardening Tips for the Home Gardening Beginner
Today, in a world where the cost of living is constantly increase, vegetable gardening is practiced more and more in backyards all around the world. It’s a way Jenny and I save money, get some exercise...
View ArticleThe Cayenne Peppers I Started From Seed Are Now Turning Bright Red
We are so glad that we joined Mike The Gardener’s Seed of the Month Club because we get 4 packages of vegetable seeds each and every month like clockwork. Last winter we received Cayenne pepper seeds...
View ArticleSedum: Loving The Fall Colours From Our Autumn Joy
I’ve seen more bumble bees this year than I have since we bought our home. Just the other day I was out taking pictures of our perennials, specifically our Autumn Joy. I tried zooming in on just one...
View ArticleStarted Collecting Nasturtium Seeds Today
Last spring I started about a dozen Nasturtium seeds indoors so I could plant them in our backyard garden once the weather turned a bit warmer. I had enough to put a row in front of our clematis vines...
View ArticleJust Finished A Batch of Pear Tomato And Cayenne Pepper Spaghetti Sauce
Well I picked the rest of the veggies from our vegetable garden and brought them in the house to finish ripening. I was going to go out and clear any remaining weeds and over ripened veggies but it was...
View ArticleAutumn Is Leaving Leaves All Over Our Yard, Again
Well I guess summer is really gone for another year and now it’s time to get ready for the long winter. It was minus 6 yesterday morning and I guess that was just the right temp for leaves to start...
View ArticleTrying My Hand At Growing An Indoor Vegetable Garden Through The Winter Months
I’ll talk quietly as our veggie garden is sleeping for the next 5 or 6 months. I wish I could hibernate for that time as fishing is over until mid April. To help avoid the bad case of cabin fever I...
View ArticleTrimming Our Garden Borders
Well Casey and I had planned a musky fishing trip for today but after Casey checked out the weather conditions for next week we decided it might be better to hold off until Monday. Today was going to...
View ArticleTips On How To Raise Tiny Tim Tomatoes In Your Kitchen
This past gardening season, 2012, our vegetable garden did so well we actually felt a bit spoiled by all the produce but especially by the quantity of tomatoes we grew. It was a shock to my system when...
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Backyard Garden Shed Plans – Wooden Garden Shed
We have been working hard trying to get our property fence under control as it’s really over grown with rose bushes. It took us most of the summer to get the north property fence in shape. The...
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