I decided celery is a must-try for gardening this year. For two reasons: In the grocery store, (1) the non-organic sort is supposedly one of the most heavily pesticide-ridden produce products and (2) the organic sort is crazy expensive. But do you think I can find celery seed? It seems there is no such thing. (Other than in the spice aisle, ( Read more... )

I didn't want to write of it because, well, I'm horribly ashamed for having such feelings. But I knew that Ma would not only understand, she would give me the go-ahead and thumbs-up or whatever it was I needed when I asked her if I could shoot the damned squirrels. Do not think ill of me for having such thoughts and do understand that I would ( Read more... )

I've not had my feeders up in a good long while. I have a hundred excuses. But Wednesday, I finally put them up. No small task. I had to scour the feeders, saw (with a my humble slow-going Dremel) the rebar to pitch in the ground to steady one of the feeder posts, listen to Mr. Neighbor bitch 'n' moan about how the feeder posts were seriously ( Read more... )

There are so many birds in my wooded back yard right now. I have no doubt they would love it if I would put some feed in their feeders. Trouble is, of course, if I do that, I feed and populate and refeed and repopulate and refeed again and repopulate again the squirrels, who have no qualms about not sharing with the birds. I really wish there ( Read more... )