A large part of pest management is sanitation. That’s a nice way to say shoveling horse manure. I gathered over a half a cubic yard (three whellbarrows, each six cubic feet) and rebuilt my compost pile. After watering the fruit, I also watered down the compost pile to ensure good decomposition. I’ll flip it every […]

Today we had excellent weather, so I moved about half a yard of dirt into my third raised bed, and tilled the flower bed outside the living room window. Then the kids and I planted that bed. There’ll be Helianthus annuus “kid stuff” (dwarf sunflowers) in the center, Tithonia rotundifolia “Fiesta Del Sol” (Mexican sunflowers) […]