Gardening and Climate Change

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past decade, you definitely notice the manifestations of climate change! There’s no denying that changes in the ecosystem are happening. Sea level rise, glaciers are shrinking, plants and animals are displaced, trees blooming earlier, lengthening of growing seasons, ice on rivers and lakes freezing later and [...]

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Little efforts make green differences.

I went over to my neighbor’s to drop off the compost tea and the organic pest spray I made for them. While we were talking outside in their backyard, there were about four kids running around the yard. Ironically, it’s National Pollinator Week and they were looking for bees because the youngest child was afraid [...]

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Neighborly Green Love #2 on Father’s Day

I finally finished the lettuce cups for the girls, you can see them on my Flickr page! And since I am on a “home-grown” kick with them, for father’s day I sent over an IOU for some of my organic tomatoes since they are not ripe yet! He loved it!

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Help Celebrate National Pollinator Week

2009 June 22-28 is National Pollinator Week. Invite pollinators to your neighborhood! Plant a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden. Plant natives! Look up your ecoregional planting guide here on the Pollinator Partnership website! The Buzz on Native Pollinators By Laura Tangley As European honeybees decline, indigenous bees and other pollinating animals can provide a [...]

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Neighborly Green Love

*UPDATE* 2009 June 19 I posted the photos of the lettuce cups I did for the girls. Click here. Neighborly Green Love started with the discovery of two paper airplanes. There were two little pieces of white things on my sloped yard next to the fence that separates the neighbor’s and our yard. It’s far [...]

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Mediterranean Fruit Flies in San Diego County

Why should we care about the Mediterranean fruit fly when there are so many fruit flies around?

Because this fruit fly can cause massive damage – to our wallets, our health, and our eco-system!

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Habitat Steward

I have finally completed my Habitat Steward training by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF)! I will start blogging about creating habitats and attracting wildlife! Here’s NWF’s Garden for Wildlife page!

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Citrus trees at risk of being wiped out.

DEADLY CITRUS GREENING DISEASE IS ON THE MOVE! According to the USDA sponsored website citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing (HLB) or yellow dragon disease, is an incurable deadly disease in which trees will die within a few years of being infected. Humans and animals are not at risk. It is the Asian citrus [...]

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Sidetracked

The whole point of starting my blog was to let my frustrations of organic gardening out. I’ve been sidetracked and let loose on other topics. But I have plenty of stories about my chemical free experience waiting to be let out. In the meantime, I’ve tried to post a few of the websites I’ve been [...]

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Beginnings of an Organic Gardener

The start of organic gardening and what you’ll read in this category!

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