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Friday, April 06, 2018

Have You Started your Free Videos Yet? Around the Garden.

Dear Folks,

The free videos on Grow Your Own Food Workshop started running April 3rd.  You can still get your free access to these and catch up watching as 2 videos are released each day.  [This is a still from my video.]

Grow Your Own Food Workshop.

We have feathered friends in the garden and I got a couple of photos of them just hanging around.

And I tried to get a nice shot of my Lemon Thyme and its beautiful flower.  Hard to get the lovely lilac color, but it is pretty and fragrant. The other leaves showing is one of my Greek Oregano patches.

One of the 4 dove varieties we have visit us in our Saturn Peach tree.  New flower buds coming out.  This variety puts out flowers before leaves and is later than our Florida Prince, which may give us about 6 peaches this year as Deane had to prune it back severely due to age.

Love the zoom on our camera.  We can get some pretty amazing shots like this one of a Woodpecker on a neighbor's palm tree, way far away.  He was just "hanging out" grooming himself - side wards!

And finally the sweet little Inca Dove is now on the nest again for a second time.  The first babies fledged and took off a couple of weeks ago and mom is back on the nest.  She chose a nice safe spot for this, and we have to stand way back to get a zoomed in close up of her so as not to disturb her.  My understanding is they can have 4-6 nestings a year and given how many of their nests are so fragile I guess they need that ratio for survival.

We do enjoy all the feather activity in the gardens.

Have a best day in garden!


-- Catherine, The Herb Lady

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Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Another "Grand" Garden Experiment

Dear Folks,

I can never resist trying something in my desert garden.  I have frequent success, so that always encourages me to "push the envelope" as they say and try something that should not work here.

This "grand" experiment is really grand, as in potentially huge.  Can you guess what is in the picture?  I will explain below.

Meanwhile, I am really excited.  My Dwarf Mulberry Nigra's have fruit!  Yay!.  It was a bit of challenge getting a picture because of the light color and lighting.

The trees are tall now probably 7+ feet.

Ready to go in the ground August 2, 2015
I purchased two 4 inch plants from Baker Creek in the Spring of 2015 and put the small trees in the ground around August 2, 2015 and watched them grow lanky then fuller and fuller.  I had hoped for fruit last year, but apparently they needed another year and the trees leafed out and are lush this spring, with FRUIT!

Every winter we have a TON of nasturtiums, which I completely encourage.  They fill every nook and cranny in and among the trees adding color and pest deterrent qualities.

I thought I would do a little collage of color for you.  I love the variegated leaves and encourage these types as much as possible.

Okay so now for the big reveal on the opening picture. If you guessed California Redwood you would be correct!

Here is the story.  My sister and I took a trip early last fall to California and included a visit to one of the redwood forests and I could not resist purchasing a baby redwood tree.  They sell them in a "tube" to keep them moist.  I got it home and potted it up and it was doing okay and then the top started to brown.  My guy said several weeks ago "It's dead".  And I said, nope the trunk is still green.  Then took a good look last week and saw the new buds.

What I was counting on is the Redwood is a colony plant, growing not just from seeds but from clonal spread of roots underground.   This fascinating aspect produces identical offspring. While the buds shown on the picture above are not part of the colony aspect, I had hoped that plant survival mechanism would help the tree adjust.

The poor thing looks awful I know, but it is still alive and producing buds on the side of the trunk.

It remains to be seen if it can make it through the summer.  I plan on moving the tree, still in the pot, to a location where it will get morning sun and afternoon shade from other trees.

Reminder:

The Grow Your Own Food Workshop has begun.

Get in on the free videos and discount opportunity to purchase the complete program.

Have a great day in the garden!


-- Catherine, The Herb Lady

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Monday, April 02, 2018

Grow Your Own Food Workshop - ready, set, start watching.

Dear Folks,

Once you sign up, if you have not already, the Free content starts tomorrow, April 3rd and runs through April 10th.

Grow Your Own Food Workshop
 

The workshop is FREE but if you purchase it you’ll get all the Free Content, PLUS over 30 more videos.

I wanted to let you know if you’re considering purchasing the Grow Your Own Food Workshop, NOW is the time to do it. The pre-sale ends April 3rd at midnight, so hurry.

Purchasing gives you access to all of the content.

Here is what you get:

Over 15 Expert Gardeners

--Watch step-by-step tutorials.
--Download pdfs that take you through everything in the video and include a complete supply list.
--Includes bonus videos


Click here to get your ticket to the free content
 


-- Catherine, The Herb Lady

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