Garden snails are like ninjas. They’re silent, they come in the night, and they’re normally gone by the time you see your ravaged plants. The wet weather seems to bring them out in full force, too. In fleeing the excessive … Continue reading
Category Archives: Gardening issues
When growing fruiting vines, what a gardener wants to see are – not just any flower, but female flowers. Male flowers are normally pretty, plentiful and have their uses, but those more rare female flowers bear the promise of things … Continue reading
We’ve been enjoying eating the Red Lady papayas for a few weeks now. The fruits ripen at the rate of perhaps one fruit per week, and there have been only two incidents with the birds so far – once, it … Continue reading
It appears to be grasshopper season again. I had a few small sunflowers growing in a planter, and noticed that the leaves were being eaten. My first conclusion was that it would be caterpillars, but I discovered a pair of … Continue reading