Black eyed peas
They’re not like other beans at all. They get bigger before they start to flower, and once the flowers are done and the bean pods come on, they take longer […]
Tag Archives: nature
A nice cabbage
If you’ve never grown cabbage and only ever bought it from the store, you automatically think of cabbage as being a thing maybe 6″ across. It’s hard to believe […]
Remember that trellis I named Encouragement?
It’s 9′ tall. Calling it Encouragement worked, and so did good non-GMO seeds, and lots of water and good aged horse manure as fertilizer. (Also continuously getting rid of as […]
Jewel weed and Dykeman Park
Nature provides hidden surprises. If you know how to use the surprises, sometimes it can really help you. Poison ivy is an awful thing, but there is a common weed […]
I grow green beans in the strangest places
And not always on purpose! Last year a green bean seed somehow got among my tomato plants. It gave me as many beans as if it had been growing […]
Another of nature’s miracles
I see many of nature’s miracles every time I go or look outside, but I could not believe this one! At least 20 years ago, there was a mimosa […]
The music of nature
Such a tiny bird; if you could hold one in you hand you probably wouldn’t even notice the weight. But industrious little parents and home builders, they match the big […]
Bee Informed-This is Truly Foul News!
Originally posted on Tennesseetransitions:
Attention Tennessee beekeepers in Washington, Sullivan, Hawkins, Unicoi, Johnson, and Carter counties: a case of American Foulbrood is being investigated in Kingsport, TN. State apiarist Mike…
They don’t often go up in trees………..
And never very far up. And only when one of their escape tunnels is very near. This little guy sits there a lot tho, cos one of his holes […]
Got ticks?
We have ticks, and we have Lyme disease too, in this area, bad. Ticks seem to be an epidemic in SC PA this year, and they are nasty little […]
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