Blue Mason Bee image by Daveeza That’s right, I recently purchased some excellent pollinators for my vegetable garden this spring – Osmia Lignaria Propinqua. For those of you that find Latin obnoxious: Western Blue Mason Bees. I realize that at this point they may not look all that exciting. Hence, the only image you get [...]
In October I was the happy recipient of a darling Wardian Case Terrarium from H. Potter. I’ve always been weak for these pieces of elegance in my home. I immediately put it to work as the new home for my carnivorous Venus Fly Traps, Boris, Draco, and Jeffrey. A small sign labeled it with “Little [...]
The names were attached to the bones and turned over to be certain there would be no cheating. The chiweenie drew from the fall drawing basket over the weekend for the Badass Fall Garden Basket Giveaway. We placed all the entry names on dog biscuits and turned them over so if the chiweenie had learned [...]
Look at these pathetic little dudes… So, here’s what happened to the new garden beds we dug into the lawns on the suburban farm this year. Remember the front lawn garden beds? Well…we didn’t add much of anything after we dug up the sod. We purchased a couple of bags of compost at the store [...]
Photo by Robobobo. There’s literally no manure better for the garden than rabbit poop and they have a distinct advantage over other animal manures. Manures such as horse, pig, cow, and chicken require many months to compost properly until they can be added to the garden bed; rabbit poop is the only manure that can [...]
Photo by friendsoffamilyfarmers. When people think of chickens, they picture tractors and plowed land as far as the eye can see. Well, I’m here to paint you a different picture. Chickens are one of the easiest animals to raise and care for on any size land. I’ve listed some great reasons to consider having backyard [...]
I’m not blind. I realize that’s a crappy basket picture, but I forgot to break out the camera before I wrapped it up. Wanna know what’s in it? This suburban farmer wants you to keep on gardening through the fall and beyond (if possible). So some of us had this completely unique idea of putting [...]
Okay this review has been a long time coming. I know this will look like just another shout-out for a company that sent me a product – but it just isn’t so. Well, Corona Tools did send me a product but only because I have loved and used Corona products for thirty years. This automatically [...]
And now, a shout-out for a fantabulous Bay Area Edible Landscaping Tour and very worthy non-profit organization ~ Many thanks to Suburban Farmer who has graciously invited me to write this guest post to shamelessly promote a good thing: Common Ground’s 4th Annual Edible Landscaping Tour is coming up this Saturday, July 24th, 11AM to [...]
Small Space Gardening on the Suburban Farm
Today was an extremely rainy Saturday here on the suburban farm. But in between jags of pouring rain, I managed to capture what I think are sights of interest. The first one is what I’m thinking is the ultimate in small space gardening – a couple of volunteer baby lettuces popping up in the crack [...]