Even though Mother Nature has been super confused with the crazy weather lately, our garden is thriving! The cold temps and the snow didn’t cause us any problems with the fruit trees nor with the veggies that are already growing. Our salad garden is thriving. While I have several lettuce and spinach transplants that …
Garden Weather & What We Planted Today Today, we hit a high around 75° – for March 8, in eastern Pennsylvania, that is incredible! So the warm weather inspired me to get in the gardens, and get some things planted. You read that right, I have things planted in my garden! Pansies and violas love …
While I sit here writing, the snow is falling and there is a gentle breeze. Its actually quite beautiful. Then as most gardeners do, I looked at the long range forecast so I know what the weather will be like outside for chores over the next week. Snow today (Friday), temps in the low 70s …
As you can tell from the above photo, February where I live means snow as it is still the middle of winter. Although Mother Nature has been a bit weird lately, it was 62°F on Wednesday, and now on Friday its snowing again, this is rather typical for Eastern PA – zone 7A. But, just …
If you garden, you know the importance of pollinators. Pollinators are the bees, bugs, butterflies, and birds that help to pollinate flowers. Without pollinators we wouldn’t have any fruits nor most vegetables (things like eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers are all botanically fruits because they form from a flower). Each year, as we have added to …
