Have I told you how much I love to garden? Ok, maybe a thousand times over the past year or so, but its true.  I love to dig, plant, tend to and finally reap the hard earned rewards of a vegetable garden, and one of the most important things you can do for your garden is to mulch it.  Mulch is a funny word, I bet if you went back to the Byzantine Era, you wouldn’t find it in their vocabulary.  I think the word was more recently invented, like Bubble Gum or Snickerdoodles…

What IS Mulching though?

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New to the Homestead garden this year is to grow my very own Poppin’ Peas.  My past gardening efforts have centered on Tomatoes, Peppers, Lettuces and Herbs, but with a new garden area to expand into, peas are at the top of the list of things to grow.  Along with radishes, beets, carrots and spinach…more on those at a later date.

Today we are concentrating on how to build a support for your peas.   The type of peas I bought are a dwarf-low-shrubbery kind (Green Arrow), and they will need a trellis to climb onto.  If a package … Read more...

Skepticism

As defined by Wiki: Is generally any questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions/beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere.

For the most part, I am a highly skeptical person, always leery of strangers coming to my front door to sell me everything from elephant ear cleaning devices to toys for your hamster.  I am also a frugal person (i.e. cheap) and like to reuse/re-purpose things instead of throwing them away or buying plasticized versions of what I need.  We already live in a huge throw away society and I for one … Read more...