If you thought high school was hard on the psyche, try growing bell peppers. High school is an emotionally stable cakewalk compared to trying to get these suckers to do anything. Although to be fair, bell peppers are sensitive to an abundance of moisture and extreme temperatures. Like most things that don’t live in the ocean, […]
When Jessica told me to remove the roof panels, I was worried I’d lose everything to birds, bugs, and the wind. Oddly enough, the only real threat was me. By keeping them in a greenhouse I wasn’t thinking of the plants, I was thinking of myself: “Wouldn’t this greenhouse and these pots be so much easier […]
Nature’s equivalent of children in the house is weeds in the greenhouse. When I first got my little garden set up it wasn’t so bad; a few weeds here, a few blades of grass there. Then, with the spike of heat, humidity, and UV rays, they grew faster than the national debt. I ignored them. […]
It’s a blow to the gardening ego when you have to Google why your plants have algae. That’s right. Algae. On my soil. Probably in my soil. Most likely under my soil. How did it get there? If you’ve been following along this summer, I think it’s safe to say that you and I both […]
