urban heirloom organic garden in the making
Who had a great Father’s Day Weekend? We Did! Were you able to relax and enjoy yourself outside? We, of course, were hard at work getting the last pepper plants in the garden, filling the potato barrels with more soil, suckering the tomatoes, weeding, watering… and all natural, organic pest control… that’s right, picking pesky [...]
We interrupt this regularly scheduled garden blog to bring you some “Amusing” and amazing life lessons from our last day of school fun. Last day of school for St. Nicks St. Mary’s has always been at Knoebel’s Grove in Elysburg, PA. Sitting back on a truly gorgeous PA day, people and ride watching, we had [...]
We recently posted about our first harvest of worm poop from the bin. From one little black 33 gallon bin of about 1,000 worms we harvested about 10 ounces of vermicompost, aka worm poop. After talking with the Worm Expert, Richie Mitchell from Bear Creek Organics, we learned that you should NOT dry out the [...]
Taking a note from a recent movie, I decided to try a new method of training my beans to climb to the trellis netting a bit faster. We didn’t have much bean success last year, but we feel it was because of bad placement in the bed and I did not catch them soon enough [...]
