Burpee’s Spring 2010 TV commercial
Howie and I saw Burpee’s new TV commercial today. It’s a terrific ad! I haven’t gotten around to downloading it and embedding it here, and I can’t find it elsewhere, so just check it out at the link I gave. It depicts a woman wearing a flowing blue dress, strolling through her garden. She kneels [...]
Pompus pumpus pampus grass, err, bush?
These posts from our local Freecycle group cracked me up. The poster changed the spelling by the time she reposted the offer, but she still didn’t get it quite right. She at least figured out they’re grasses and not bushes by the time she made the second post. For the record, it’s pampas grass. I [...]
Self-watering container garden update: Oh, deer
I’m assuming it’s the deer who’ve deluded denuded (hah!! oops!!) my tomato plants’ lower portions. You’d think deer would get the stuff up high as well as the lower leaves. They don’t seem to be interested in the tomatoes, just the leaves. The basil and pepper remain untouched. I’m making a big batch of roasted [...]
First fruits of our 2009 garden
I plucked the first cherry tomatoes today! Sun Cherry is this variety and I’d had it in my head that they were a red variety; they’re decidedly orange, however, a warm orange. They could be any color for all I care, for they’re incredibly sweet, especially popped off the vine and directly into your mouth. [...]
Already have a tomato!
We already have a tomato on one of our patio tomato hybrids. I can’t take any credit for it, though. It was already there when I bought the cellpack of three little plants. I am going to remove it and let the stressed little seedling put its energy into developing a healthy root system in [...]
My worm poop is here!
Worm castings (yeah, poop) are a terrific natural fertilizer. I ordered a 1 gallon bag of them to try in the self-contained grow boxes and some other containers. I can also make a “tea” solution for use as a foliar spray. I bought mine from BocaBob on Dave’s Garden. They’re shipped from someone in Texas. [...]
