I’ve always wanted to own a blueberry bush.   The fruit is delicious, contains no fat or cholesterol, and is high in antioxidants.  Last year I checked the prices of 2 year old bushes at the local nursery.  They wanted over $40 for the plant.  No way I planned to pay that, so I tried an experiment.  I put [...]

Time to share my top secret indoor seed starting area.  This is the first year I’m starting my own tomatoes from seed. Previously I purchased plants from the local Shoprite supermarket.  Last year $3.00 got me 6 plants a little late in the season on clearance.  This year using seed purchased from the same store,  I paid $0.20 a packet [...]

This is the first year I am trying to start seeds indoors.  Last year I planted seeds outside in trays of  potting soil or directly in the ground, to mixed results.  This season I’m up for trying something new; growing Cherry and Beefsteak tomatoes from seed.   If all goes well I won’t be purchasing any more tomato plants from the [...]

Come October I began my preparations for next year’s garden.  Gardening is a year round hobby, with only a lull during the November through February months. Below are a list of chores I performed at the end of the growing season.  By starting now I can avoid some of the pitfalls I faced during my first [...]

Obviously I’m dreaming again.  The chance of a pretty young female smiling at me is pretty slim, despite my Internet fame and fortune.  Back in May I had planted a row of Sugar Baby Watermelons and completely forgot about them.  They started out as these tiny little vines that I knew from the start would [...]

I’ve started to pick some of my carrots from the garden.  At first I was disappointed in their appearance, scrawny little stubs that they were.  Then I realized it was unfair to compare my first attempt at growing anything to the showroom specimens in my local supermarket.  Especially when they aren’t even the same species. Most [...]

Today I was peaking over my garden fence and received a mild scare.  A dragon fly buzzed at me!  Sitting on the corner of the bird netting about a foot away, this thing created a buzzing hiss from its wings.  My 5 year old son came running over thinking I had found something cool; what could be cooler [...]

Every week or two I run the lawnmower over the backyard, grass, weeds and all.  The last few times I noticed some bright red objects in the grass.  I dismissed them as some type of mushroom since they didn’t look like any type of strawberry I knew of. For the 4th of July my know-it [...]