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How to Keep Your Garden Pest-Free and Pet Safe

Keeping pests away from our home requires research to help you ensure that your plants and your pets are safe. It’s imperative that homeowners should take action with pest infestations, as some pests carry viruses and diseases. The best way to eliminate pests inside your home and in your garden ...

Grapes for Dessert

These grapes are for dessert. I will chill them. There are lots more hidden in the vine. they are seedless,  sweet, juicy, and with a very soft skin.

Grapes August 2021

Our grape vine is doing well again. Many grape clusters are hidden under the leaf coverings.

5 Tips to Ensure a Clean and Beautiful Garden

As a property owner, having a garden comes with a large set of responsibilities. Some maintenance tasks like watering and weeding are essential to the healthy growth of your plants. However, regular raking and pruning will also be needed to keep your garden attractive. Despite what you plant, you ...

Succulent Flowers

This is a sample of  the Agave aka foxtail agave "flowering truck" flower. The scientific name is "attenuata".

Winter Next in tangerine tree

We found this abbandoned  bird nest in our front yard's tangerine tree. It was found in late December.

Philodendron Verrucosum Care

Light: Philodendron Verrucosum appreciates bright light during the winter months. During the growing season, the plant prefers dappled shade or indirect light. Watering: Philodendron Verrucosum grow best in soil that is evenly moist, but not soggy. A good rule of thumb is to water when the top ...

Philodendron Gloriosum Care

Light: Philodendron Gloriosum prefers bright indirect light, though they can adjust to medium levels of light. Keep them out of harsh direct sunlight, as too much of it can scorch their leaves! Watering: Allow the top 2"- 3" of soil to dry out before watering. Try to keep the soil evenly moist. ...

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mowed lawn and brush cut

EPSOM SALT, TOMATO, AND PEPPER GROWING

Epsom salt used as a foliar spray or soil additive will help tomato and pepper plants grow and produce larger, tastier yields. Late in the season use an Epsom salt spray to increase tomato and pepper yield and keep plants green and bushy; early in the season add Epsom salt to the soil to aid ...

Fertilizers

 Bonemeal Description: Steam processed bone, a slaughterhouse by product. Benefit: Adds phosphorus. Average NPK analysis: Varies from about 1-11-0 to about 3-15-0, also contains about 24 percent calcium. Application and amount for adequately fertile soil: Till or rake in 3 pounds per 100 ...

Peppers Growing/Care

Keep the soil evenly moist but not wet throughout the season and particularly during fruit development. Feed with a complete fertilizer diluted to half strength when plants are well established and once more just before blossoms open. Peppers grow best when night temperatures do not dip below 68°F ...

Pepper Harvest:

Tomato Harvest:

Peppers: care and Maintenance

Cucumber watering

CARE AND MAINTENANCE Water as needed to make sure that plants get about 1 inch of water per week. Cucumber beetles are serious threats that not only eat the plants but also infect them with bacterial wilt that will kill the plants about the time they begin to produce fruit. As soon as cucumber ...

watering

Tips for Watering Tomato Plants Water slowly, water deeply – The number one rule of watering tomatoes is to make sure that you go slow and easy. Never rush watering tomato plants. Use a drip hose or other forms of drip irrigation to deliver water to your tomato plants slowly. Water regularly – ...

Cucumbers

 Keep the soil evenly moist. Keep the potting mix warm; use black plastic mulch until the weather heats up then switch to aluminum foil; this reflects heat but and light under the foliage which discourages aphids. Feed with a high phosphorus fertilizer diluted to half strength when plant begins to ...

Tomatoes

Tomato – Won’t Ripen Q: Our plants have *tons* of large green tomatoes, but they won’t ripen on the vine! They’re absolutely gorgeous, non-diseased green tomatoes that get lots of sunshine. Any tricks to make them ripen up? A: It’s mostly a waiting game. Tomatoes ripen when they get ...

Gardening

Pick off suckers on Tomatoes

Grapes Glowing

OUr grapes are getting bigger and have a bit of a blush and glow. The picture was taken on June 30th, 2020

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Garden Grape Vine- New Grape Leaves for an Early Spring

These new grape leaves are growing on last year's grape vine. I hope that  we get a wonderful grape yield again this year. The picture was taken in early March.