DIY composting

If you have a sizable garden, and a healthy lawn, there is no reason you can’t create your own compost.

Good compost is pricey, and much of what I see on the market is not very well composted, especially the cheaper…

Oleander: Look but do not touch

We’ve seen them everywhere: The white, pink and magenta flowers appear where little else is in bloom. These tough-as-nails plants thrive along our freeways up and down the state.

Oleanders, the perfect shrub for our hot summer climate.

Perfect? In many respects…

What’s Eating You?

We have managed to get our plants and seedlings past the killing frost, and now something is eating them. Some sleuthing will reveal the culprit.

Snails and slugs leave telltale slime trails, and generally eat the plant down to the stem.

Grasshoppers and crickets eat even more.