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How to Garden, Update I – Organic Insecticides & New Harvest

How to Garden, Update I – Organic Insecticides & New Harvest

Welcome to the saga where my (and your?) identity shifts from black thumb to green thumb. But not without bug bumps & fungal bruises along the way. Join us as we ever so gradually forsake the grocery store produce section for our backyard blissful bounty. 

Blueberry Nutrition: It’s Picking Season Somewhere!

Blueberry Nutrition: It’s Picking Season Somewhere!

Blueberry season is here, folks! That means summer is right around the corner. High fives to all the chillens who just seized every green, pink and red blueberry from the bush and forsook the bluest of blues above and below their 6 inch by 6 

Making Your First Raised-Bed: Garden Tour

Making Your First Raised-Bed: Garden Tour

Round 2: Let’s Get Down to the Nitty Gritty (In 1950s male announcer voice, spoken far too quickly for modern American intelligibility) Previously on The Journey of the Thumb… Austin commits involuntary plantslaughter. Wildlife witnesses prosecute. SeedEaters (aka birds & squirrels & bugs, oh sigh) 

How to Make Your First Outdoor Raised-Bed Garden

How to Make Your First Outdoor Raised-Bed Garden

The Journey of the Thumb Ever been accused of having a “black thumb“? Likely it was unintelligibly uttered under granny’s breath to your progenitress (your mom) at the last backyard family luncheon you hosted. Allow me to elaborate. It’s when you wholeheartedly attempt grow photosynthetic