Welcome back. For a change, today I continue my Great Outdoor series that I began last winter. I am an avid cross country skier, and this winter has featured consistently good ski conditions here in Central

Welcome Back. Today I will introduce you to a newly discovered heirloom seed source: But first, about a week ago I wrote a post on Winter Sowing. For those of you unfamiliar with this technique, it involves

Can anyone help me, hoping you can? Recently when I go to publish a post I get an error: Invalid permalink, Then it gives a character, once it gave W, this tine H. Do you know what this means? Is it a

Welcome back. The 2020 GBBC is in the books. It's always amazing to look at the count results on the website. The numbers are updated in real time. As I write this, over 232,000 checklists have been submitted

Winter sowing is a technique I have been using for several years. It sounds unbelievable but it really does work. You can plant cold hardy seeds now in containers, place them outside, and they will germinate

Welcome back, it's been about a month since my last post. I continue to participate in Project FeederWatch which runs until early April. This Friday marks the start of another citizen science project that

Welcome back to my followers, and a special welcome to my new readers. The strange winter weather continues here in Central NY State as we are about half way through January. This past weekend brought

Welcome back. Its been awhile since my last post as I have been busy with Christmas and all the festivities. It's hard to believe that 2019 is coming to an end. Happy New Year to all of my readers from

Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed my last post which introduced Project FeederWatch. I also hope that some of you are participating in this worthwhile project. Week 1 was a great success. I observed 15

Welcome back. As the gardening season has come to an end, my focus will turn to bird watching and bird photography for the winter months. It's time to put up the bird feeders, dust off the binoculars,

Welcome back. The growing season has come to an end; on October 4th we had the first killing frost with a temperature of 27 degrees. It's hard to believe it's heading towards the end of October already.

Welcome back. October is here and the gardening season has officially ended as we had a kiling frost on Saturday morning October 6th. The temperature plunged to 27 degrees here in the Central New York

Welcome back. It's been a month or so since I last posted. Time has been flying by as usual and the gardening season is coming to a close. Soon it will be time to pull the plants and till the soil. In

Welcome back. Now that I have returned from my vacation in the Canadian Maritimes, I will focus again on the garden. I will re-visit our vacation and write a few additional posts on that as i get time.

After our visit to Prince Edward Island, we headed to Nova Scotia. We stayed in Hubbards near Halifax. The first evening there we visited Peggy's Cove. I would strongly recommend you visit there, it is

We have been on vacation now for a week and by the title you can probably guess our destination. However, the maritimes encompasse a lot of territory. Our first location was the beautiful Prince Edward

Well it's that time of the year, the garden is starting to pay dividends. So far this season I have picked lettuce and kale, however, it has been quite a waiting game for other veggies to mature. Over

As promised, a short update on the upper garden. On the bottom edge, the heirloom tomatoes are coming along nicely with the hot humid weather that tomatoes love. Refer to my earlier posts for the varieties

I'm back again, please be patient as I learn Partiko. My laptop is out of commission I'm waiting on a new screen as the current one has dimmed to the point of being hard to see. The gardens are finally

Welcome back. It's hard to believe it's been 3 weeks since my last post. I planned on posting updates on all vegetables idividually, however time has passed me by and I just haven't gotten that accomplished