I will admit it…I am a tomato snob from the Midwest! Growing up in Indiana, eating a juicy, red beefsteak tomato from my backyard garden was something I looked forward to each summer. It is a food flavor memory that I will never forget, and it makes it tough to buy a tomato from the […]
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The Hummingbird Moth ~ Mary Ann Mira You might have heard the saying, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it must BE a duck!” Recently, I applied that expression to what I thought was a hummingbird in my backyard. I saw a creature that looked like
This Garden Gertie tip is Mary Ann Mira’s. It concerns deterring small critters from invading your garden space and digging it up. I have birds and neighborhood cats that play havoc with my raised garden bed, which is still fairly empty until Mother’s Day planting begins. You can place plastic forks throughout the dirt, tines
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