Gardening

Orchid flower stalks

by Avery January 13, 2016 in Gardening, Home Comments are Disabled

Orchid in Bloom

by Avery September 6, 2015 in Gardening, Home Comments are Disabled

Orchid Update

by Avery July 15, 2015 in Gardening, Home Comments are Disabled

Since my last post, I have noticed differences between my 3 locations. The bathroom appears unsuitable for orchids. I think that there is not sufficient light from the window. The desk is the second best location. Orchids are growing roots and leaves- and those in bloom stay in bloom. Downstairs […]

Orchid Introduction

by Avery April 24, 2015 in Gardening, Home Comments are Disabled

Indirect light in the afternoon, humidity from the shower Closeups: Comments: The white orchid was one of my first orchids and suffered some serious neglect. After finally dropping all of its flowers, it has grown an additional leaf. Now that I am trying to take better care of it, I […]

War on Slugs & Other Garden Killing Bugs

by Avery March 8, 2015 in Gardening Comments are Disabled

I made some collars to go around my seedlings for this year. Even though I’ve seen the copper tape doesn’t really work, I put it on anyway (I have tons of that tape!). I’m not really sure the collars work. The rolly pollies and slugs have still managed to get […]

Copper Slug Tape Experiment

by Avery February 11, 2015 in Gardening Comments are Disabled

I have been having problems in the garden with slugs eating my seedlings. They destroyed my green beans, broccoli, and pepper plants. I read online that you could put copper tape around the planter boxes and the slugs would not want to cross it. After reading some reviews on Amazon […]

Backyard progress

by Avery April 11, 2014 in Gardening Comments are Disabled

Lettuce and kale are aphid magnets 🙁 Wasn’t able to use most of the kale because it was COVERED in aphids. They were on thick like a blanket. Harvested what I could and then hacked back their habitat. To combat the aphids, I planted some marigolds in the beds. Hopefully […]

Planter boxes part 2

by Avery March 13, 2014 in Gardening Comments are Disabled

Built two more planter boxes! I read somewhere that berries will do ok in the shade. That box is in the shade most of the day- gets some morning light. Misc box has some of everything- squash, tomato, eggplant, cauliflower, broccoli, and basil. Hoping something survives.

Planter boxes

by Avery March 1, 2014 in Gardening Comments are Disabled

Starting seeds!

by Avery January 21, 2014 in Gardening Comments are Disabled

Just got my package of seeds in the mail from ! I looked up planting times for the seeds and all of them seem to be “2-4 weeks before last frost”. I don’t think we really have frost in Northern California (at least not this year it seems!), so I […]