What’s the best way to get sugar cane started in your yard or home garden? I tried 3 different methods to find out which works best: The video is fairly long–about 15 minutes–but is a step-by-step process filmed over 5 months. The three methods I used to start the cane after cutting it into pieces […]
Yesterday I went boogie boarding at Upham Beach and noticed that there were piles of turtle grass and manatee grass on the beach. Several days of onshore winds have been increasing the amounts of seaweed on the beach. I decided that a couple of bags of seaweed would be very good for my garden, so […]
On April 14th I blogged about our humble garden’s hopeful beginnings. I’m happy to report that we have now harvested three very healthy and very tasty zucchini’s from our plants. Below is the first one. I was alarmed that many of the young fruit seemed to turn yellow and fall off. So I turned to […]
I’ve been wanting to grow a few veggies and herbs in the back yard since I bought this house in 2002. Problem is, this area is nothing but gray sterile sand. and very dry. Heck, even the weeds have trouble growing in our yard. But you know when I saw Michelle Obama and company putting […]
