As you can see, almost everything is sprouting! The tomatoes are already 3 inches tall in just 20 days and are a little bent over from...

Sooo, what are you supposed to do with stranded waterbirds? Do you know? Loons and grebes can accidentally land on roads, parking lots,...

As promised in my last post, I started my garden today. Here is a list of what I planted in a series of plug trays in the controlled...

It has been a busy few weeks trying to figure out how to start my seeds indoors and sourcing the impossible fertilizer recommendation of...

Turning the calendar to March 1 means planting season is just three months away! And starting seeds indoors should begin 6-8 weeks before...

The first thing you want to do is clean out the hive. Remove the dead bodies, any mold that has grown or any bugs that have moved in. You...

2.16.18 Getting Nerdy about the Soil Wow! I received the interesting soil test results from Michigan State University and read about what...

Planning a garden when the landscape is covered in snow is not something I have done before. My typical garden “plan” happens in the...

I’m now caught up in my reading about companion plants and eager to share what I have learned. But first, a bit more on the soil testing…...

The most common questions we hear, especially in spring is, “what breed of bees do we sell?" The answer is rather simple at first: mutts - same as everyone else is selling in the US. Unless you live on an island many miles from any other form of land and/or you are really good at containing, artificially inseminating, controlling a queen and the drones around her, then your bees are going to be mutts. How do people sell bees and call them Italians, Russians, etc? Well, we thi