The creatures who live in our backyards think of it as home. A field, a lawn, a window box – all are part of nature.
Garden Update – January — photos by Greg Allen — We started putting down the cardboard. The area isn’t completely cleared, but we will keep working on it. This leads me to our first lesson learned. Don’t underestimate the difficulty of clearing overgrown land. It can be a b*tch. This large area Read more »
New Garden Preparation Back in the day (you say that when you don’t want people to think about how old you are – even though everyone knows), when Mike was a freshman at Penn State, his dorm room was very close to the Penn State Arboretum. We went over there more than a few Read more »
by Bill Gadbow When we started selecting “pollinator” plants to add to the little garden around the birdfeeder that is watchable from our kitchen window, our intention was to help out Honeybees and Monarchs. We were aiming too low. We found out that there are lots more pollinators to consider. Wasps, moths, Read more »