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Spring Haircuts for Evergreen Ferns

Every spring I look forward to the ritual of cutting back my evergreen ferns. Although it won’t harm them to leave them alone, by cutting off the old growth you...

The Mason Bees Are Awake

Finally finally, the weather seems to have warmed up, and the cocoons in the bee houses are coming to life. The emerging bees will chew a little hole, and crawl...

Peas In Particular

  It’s a beautiful sunny day, April 8. The peas started in vermiculite are now in the ground, germinated and well-rooted. I will never again plant peas into cold soil...

Oh My Aching Back!

Laurie may have chosen to ignore her snapweed aka pop weed aka Cardamine hirsuta, but I faced it head-on and spent 4 hours the other day pulling it out –...

Time To Cut Back

  My garden is screaming for attention at this time of year. But I am ignoring the vast carpets of snap weed in my beds and going for the simple,...

Waking Up The Mason Bees

With the hope that spring has arrived, and the promise of all that luscious fruit from your trees and bushes, it’s time to think about releasing your mason bees from...