Just last week, it was late November, and we were still able to harvest tomatoes and make fresh tomato sauce from our garden! That’s one of the joys of gardening in a mild climate, especially when I see my friends back in Utah covered in snow lately. ;) Garden cleanup and tomato fatigue After some […]
It’s the first weekend of November (well, it was when I started writing this!), and it’s time to clean up some of the summer annuals and veggies and plant some winter veggies and flowers. It feels good to be planting something again! And it’s great to live in a place where winter plantings are even […]
Here’s a great article from Fast Company about farmers in the UK testing the use of flowers to attract beneficial insects instead of using pesticides. They’re testing using new technology to make it easier to plant rows of flowers among the crops. This attracts beneficial insects, like parasitic wasps that eat aphids. Pretty cool! And […]