I’ve made a note to myself so that next year I will plant much, much less cinnamon basil.
It did 10x better than our regular basil, perhaps because it ended up in a prime piece of real estate. It quickly overshadowed everything else in its bed; I found red peppers drying on the plant buried underneath them. [...]
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Cinnamon Basil Harvest
Garden Update: September
Does a post consisting entirely of the words “sad and pathetic” suffice? Oh, fine. Let me wallow in garden-pity while I regale you with my tale of woe.
Eep! Ignore that water runoff, will ya? Thought we’d fixed that!
That’s the view from the front. Not quite as pretty as most of the larger sunflowers have either [...]
Ants. So many ants…
It’s not as if they’ve ever been uncommon in our yard. Or our kitchen for that matter. But it’s their impervious nature this season that has me so stressed.
They destroyed our corn. Did I mention that? Yes, with the help of their aphid butt-juice drinking habit our corn is nothing more than chicken feed and compost. [...]
Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
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When thinking about where to begin in reviewing Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture, I’m overwhelmed. There is just so much to say! We picked it up at the urging of a friend, scoring the second edition just as it was released. I don’t buy new books very often, but this was [...]
July’s Garden Update
Hot, humid, intolerable to be in between the hours of 7:30am to 7:30pm. That’s our garden right now. Our temps are hovering around 110F with a mid-month peak of 118F (48C). The added humidity has been what’s really pushed us over the miserable edge.
Our tomatoes are very stunted, our corn is anemic, our melons are [...]
