Gardening

A Rocketing Garden & The Ladybug Army

April 20, 2011
A Rocketing Garden & The Ladybug Army

Yesterday my lovely daughter, Ciarra, and fur ball diva extraordinaire, Gorilla, spent the late afternoon in awe of the garden’s rapid growth of this past month. We had fun snapping pics, and since the rocket (a/k/a arugula) was rocketing and ready to pick, we took advantage of that too. It’s so cool how easily arugula, [...]

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Micro-Arugula, My First Mini-Harvest

March 28, 2011
Micro-Arugula

As a novice gardener, having these arugula seedlings sprout within two to three days is like a big pat on the back. And just at over a week old, they sprouted so abundantly that I went through the highly advised method of “thinning”.  That is, removing some of the sprouts (usually weaker ones) to make [...]

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