The Power of Gardening
I always plant “sacrificial” tomatoes in our backyard for deer. This year, I decided to plant them in the rental house backyard (which is next door to ours). Deer and other...
Category: Garden Musings
Butterfly Love
I was in the garden minding my business stalking bees and butterflies when I noticed two monarchs flying around. When they both landed on a butterfly bush, I went over...
On Dasher, on Dancer, on Prancer and Vixen
Well really, just on Dasher. Specifically this blue dasher dragonfly perched on a garden stake near the koi pond. Very cool and sort of sci-fi. It’s hard to pause in...
Sunday in the Garden
It was another scorching hot weekend in Cincinnati. I decided to head out to garden early Sunday morning, around 7:30. It didn’t help, I was dripping sweat (that paints a...
Pesticides, Fungicides & Herbicides…Oh My!
Pesticide. Fungicide. Herbicide. Genocide. Homicide. Suicide. What do these all have in common? The suffix “cide”, which means killer or the act of killing. To be clear, I’m not equating...