Happy Autumnal Equinox to you! We have officially crossed from summer to fall in the Northern Hemisphere and coming to the end of the height of the growing season. Although summer is over, the gardeni...
Truth be told, I really struggled with writing this installment of the Garden Gab. I caught a seasonal bug and writing is the last thing on my mind. Spring Fever is going around. Please take the neces...
If you are a gardener, then chances are that you also preserve part of your bounty is some way, shape, or form. Freezing, canning, dehydrating, etc. Gardening and preserving go hand in hand. Today I w...
Indoor seed sowing is in full swing. Longer growing crops, such as onions, are already several inches tall and making progress. Various slow starting flowers and herbs are also underway. Very soon (wi...
Rain, rain, rain. We have been experiencing quite a few rainy days lately. The damp weather is not conducive&n...
Is it too early to start planning the spring garden? Absolutely not if you start your own seeds. Spring will be here before we know it and in preparation I have just completed my Great Annual Seed Sor...
Here we are in 2025. I am not a big New Year’s resolution person. I have never really made resolutions like lose weight, etcetera. I do set goals for myself for the year. These are things that I want ...
Happy Winter Solstice! I sit this morning and contemplate after the longest night of the year. Today is the official first day of winter and also the first day that our daylight hours begin to increas...
Happy December Siskiyou County. To be honest I had a difficult dilemma deciding what to write about for this bi-weekly article edition. It is hard to be inspired about gardening when the days are the ...
When I was a teenager, the most dreaded of all Fall chores was raking leaves. Oh how I loathed it. I would rather stack fire wood. These days the fifty-something me looks at fallen leaves in a new and...