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- Editor: Teresa Garbini
- Author: Paul McCollum
Published on: May 24, 2013
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To all the lovely people,
Drawing beneficial insects to your garden is a great way to keep your plants healthy and the garden looking beautiful. Here is a good article and an excellent list of plants to use and enjoy in your garden. I always plant flowers and such in my year round vegetable gardens to provide food for the beneficials and enjoyment for my family.
Paul
Organic Pest Control: The Best Plants to Attract
Beneficial Insects and Bees
Pesticides — even organic varieties — are not the safest, healthiest or most effective natural pest...
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- Editor: Teresa Garbini
- Author: Paul McCollum
Published on: May 24, 2013
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To all the lovely people,
Ticks! I really like the map that accompanies this article - it shows our area as being low risk and that's good news for us. Since we live in a rural area our dog brings ticks into the house often this time of year. I check him for ticks on a regular basis and I check myself after a day working around on the property - I have found some but so far it seems to be a relatively light year. Check this article out - it's a good one.
Paul
Ticks:
Natural Prevention and Remedies
Use these 10 tips to take the ick out of dealing with ticks this summer....Tags: ticks (1)
- Editor: Teresa Garbini
- Author: Paul McCollum
Published on: May 16, 2013
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To all the lovely people, Here is a small list of garden reminders for you to consider. Please write if you any specific questions and we will do our best to give you an answer. Water is a serious concern this year so anything we can do to save water is good for all of us. Hand watering, mulching, and keeping the top 1" of soil loose will help conserve this precious resource. Paul
Plant Warm-Season CropsOnce the soil is warm, it's time to plant warm-season crops such as peppers and cucumbers. By using a black plastic landscape fabric under heat-loving plants, you will provide a few... |
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- Editor: Teresa Garbini
- Author: Paul McCollum
Published on: May 15, 2013
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Brassica oleracea var. acephala
Perhaps my partiality for this unusual cabbage stems from the fact that it is the first cabbage I ever grew. Back in the early 1970s, I obtained seed from J. Stevens Cox of St. Peter Port on the island of Guernsey in response to a little pamphlet he sent me outlining the history of the cabbage. I was naive enough at the time to imagine that I was one of the first to grow it in this country. In fact, it has been grown here off and on since the 1840s. Yet I will say that growing the cabbage made me keenly aware for the first time that there was truly such a thing as...
- Editor: Teresa Garbini
- Author: Paul McCollum
Published on: May 15, 2013
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Heirloom Cabbage Varieties and Other Brassicas
Black Tuscan Palm Tree Kale Brassica oleracea var. acephala
I first stumbled upon this variety of cavolo di Palma in Ottavio Targioni-Tozzetti’s Dizzionario Botanico Italiano (1825, 45–46), curiously wondering to myself whether it could be more impressive than Jersey Cow Cabbage, for surely it does not grow as tall. Later, when I saw the kale in the gardens of the Villa Barbero at Maser high in the hills of the Veneto, I realized immediately that I could not be without it. The Black Tuscan Palm...
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