Time To Grow

09/01/2026

September is for Fall planting! 🥦🥕🫜🥬

09/01/2026

Add a little color to your September with flowers!🌼🌸🌺

08/31/2026

I put my Fall wreath on the door today, pumpkin spice and apple cider candles are burning. 🍎🎃
🤞I'm hoping it manifests some cooler planting weather. 🍁🍂

If that doesn't work, next I'm putting up the Christmas tree. 🎄😁

08/31/2026

🐞 NOT ALL BUGS ARE BAD!

In fact, most of them aren't. 👀

Time To Grow Garden Guide #002 — Beneficial Insects is here!

Learn which garden helpers you want to KEEP around. 🌱🐝🐞

Save it. Print it. Keep it handy.

08/29/2026

I attended a Pollinator Ambassador Academy workshop last weekend. One of the speakers, a beekeeper had an observation bee hive on display.
I took a video of it that I can't get to upload to Facebook for some reason. So I'm sharing a photo instead.

A few interesting bee facts:🐝

🌼Honey bees are native to Europe,Africa and parts of Asia. They are NOT native to North America. They were introduced here in the 1600s by European settlers.
🌸Honey bees have 5 eyes. Two large compound eyes and then three smaller eyes on top of their heads.
🏵️Worker bees are all female.
🌼The queen bee can lay around 1500 eggs per day.
🌸Honey bee wings beat about 200 times per second, producing the "buzzing" sound.

08/27/2026

It's pouring down rain, so no gardening today. 🌧️
I've been trying for hours to share a video to Facebook and it won't upload. So that's not happening either.

Time to pivot and do something entirely different!... I'm making homemade summer sausage. It's a two day process. Photos and recipe in the comments.

Note those fresh from the garden garlic chives! 👀

What's the difference between chives and garlic chives you ask ❓

Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum) are flat like thick blades of grass and smell/taste like mild garlic.
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) have round and hollow leaves and smell/taste like mild onion.

08/26/2026

Wednesday has rolled around again, so it's time for "What's That Flower?"... 🌼🏵️🌸

Today's flower is a bee, butterfly and hummingbird attractor. It is a zone 8+ perennial , in cooler climates it can be grown as an annual. It has a long bloom season from Spring all the way to the first Fall frost.

Any guesses? Leave your answers below. 👇

I will post the correct answer later today in the comments.

08/25/2026

Rest in Peace Dolly 🩷

Dolly Parton - In the Garden asks for you to Comment...

08/25/2026

🔍 Did you know? 🔎

Figs (ficus carica) are not technically a fruit, they are actually inverted flowers.

The seeds inside the fig are the real "fruit".

There are over 700 different species of fig trees.

Some varieties of figs require a unique type of wasp to pollinate them.

Figs originated in Western Asia. Archaeologists have found fig remnants in excavation sites from 5000 B.C.

Figs came to the United States in the 1700s, when Franciscan missionaries planted them in mission gardens.

Figs are not only delicious to eat, they have a rich history and ecological significance. Making them a remarkable fruit, umm I mean flower.

Some might say they are FIGGIN' incredible !!! 😁