Last week with the cold, hummingbird quit coming to visit. The cardinal climber flowers lingered a bit longer. Sharing space on balcony ra...

I'm glad I tried this, because recently read that stevia plants start to loose their sweetness in third or fourth year. Haven't noti...

And small. Pulled all the beets- they were small, and didn't taste good. Cleaned up my pots of carrots, pulled some- they look okay, if ...

I didn't write about this before, because it just made me too sad. A few weeks ago, my favorite angelfish Miss Beautiful died. I hadn...

I am pretty much abandoning the garden for rest of the year. My ankle is not better from accident three months ago, doctor said it shouldn...

My stevia plant has grown sprawling out of its pot, so I cut it back in preparation for bringing inside when temperatures drop. Decided to t...

Some kind of hawk, in my backyard. Eater of rabbits and squirrels!

By the bugs! My favorite, amaranth 'calaloo', I have totally been unable to keep ahead of the beetles by hand-picking them every mor...

My cardinal climbers have finally gone all the way up the post (seedheads of clematis there with them) to the deck railings- but no flower...

For one, my 'kiwi fern' coleus by the garden down under the deck, is looking really healthy. It has had one of those orange assass...

I've been lamnenting how poorly most of my garden is doing this year (due to some neglect) but really it isn't all that bad. My yel...

Found two fat, rather large caterpillars on my turnip-rutabaga leaves. Not sure if they were causing the damage. Brought one in to identify ...

I harvested garlics and they were drying outside on mesh seat of a chair for a week plus few days. It doesn't look like a lot, and most...