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Author Archives: Benjamin
Wordless Wednesday-Monarch
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged backyard, beneficial insect, bugs, butterfly, caterpillars, flower, gardening, monarch, summer
18 Comments
Summer Betwixt 2 Slices of Bread
Ben’s Southern Summer Tomato Sandwich This sandwich is almost too simple. But also easy to screw up. Ingredients are the key to this southern sandwich’s culinary mysticism. You need: White bread. Soft, white bread. The kind of white bread everyone … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged black krim, farming, flower garden, heirloom, heirloom tomato, Kentucky, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, recipe, south, southern, tomato, tomato sandwich, vegetable, vegetable garden
39 Comments
Wordless Wednesday-Our Backyard Owl and His Brave Neighbor
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Tagged backyard, birding, birdwatching, farming, gardening, great horned owl, Kentucky, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, owl
10 Comments
The Nostalgia of Cleome
A friend gave me a few seeds from her Cleome hassleriana several years ago. We planted the seeds, enjoyed the flowers, saved the seeds and continued burying them in the soil at a couple of different homesteads, spreading the joy … Continue reading
Posted in Flower Gardening, Gardening, Uncategorized
Tagged backyard, cleome, Cleome hassleriana, compost, farming, flower, flower garden, flower gardening, flowers, garden, gardening, gardening tips, heirloom, Kentucky, nostalgia, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, propagate, seed, seed saving
32 Comments
Our Accidental Hanging Dahlia Experiment
It started with a couple of seed heads, lying forgotten on top of the soil in a flower pot in the garage. I’d brought the pot into the garage before a hard freeze last winter, placed it in a corner … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged backyard, dahlia, farming, flower, flower garden, flowers, gardening, gardening tips, Kentucky, Ohio, organic gardening, propagate, serendipity
12 Comments
We Seek the Black Krim
It’s our first year planting the heirloom variety tomato, Black Krim. We’re excited! The one pictured is just starting to ripen and we’re curious how long it will be before it develops that lovely deep, dark crimson. We’ve had a … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged backyard, black krim, farming, flower garden, garden, gardening, gardening tips, heirloom, heirloom tomato, Kentucky, Ohio, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, propagate, tomato, vegetable, vegetable garden
12 Comments
Daisy, the Poet’s Darling
We love our Shasta daisies. Some may think them a little too “Mary Ann” and not enough “Ginger”, but we like their cheerful little faces and carefree abundance. And they need almost no maintenance except for a little fertilizer and occasional deadheading and division. The … Continue reading
Posted in Flower Gardening, Gardening
Tagged backyard, daisies, daisy, flower, flower garden, flower gardening, flowers, garden, gardening, gardening tips, Kentucky, landscaping, Ohio River Valley, organic gardening, perennial, propagate
4 Comments
Daisies, Coneflowers & Bees (Oh, My)
July means the Purple Coneflowers and Daisies are competing for the lavish attention of the bees in our neighborhood. So far it seems the coneflowers are winning. There’s a symphony of bees constantly hovering on and around our stand of Echinacea … Continue reading
Clematis-Garden Fireworks
Is it strange that I try to think of new places to build garden walls and fences just so I can cover them with clematis? When these beauties are going full tilt they’re as spectacular as a fireworks display. Currently … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged backyard, Clematis, fireworks, flower garden, flowers, garden, gardening, Independence Day, organic gardening, propagate
6 Comments
Yeah, Radishes! (Part Deux)
So the last of the radishes have been gently tugged from the ground (except for the couple I’ve left to go to seed.) We had a pretty good crop this spring; I’ve finally learned to be ruthless about thinning…the only … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged compost, garden, gardening, organic gardening, radish, radishes, vegetable gardening, vegetables
4 Comments
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