Early Bird Garden Clean Up

See you at 8:30 am tomorrow - Friday 17 - to clean up the garden and hoist our sun sail. Bring gloves!

Bamboo invasion

trimming all the new bamboo shoots in bed #1 is very important: it's spreading too much and it needs to be kept in constant control.

Powdery mildew on garden and home plants: a healthy approach

How to make our plants look great without spreading toxic stuff around!

Powdery mildew is a common summer problem on many types of vegetables and cut flowers.
But most powdery mildew can be avoided or cured with inexpensive, homemade remedies that have been proven to work as well as or better than commercial fungicides. Powdery mildew thrives when foliage is dry and the weather is warm; wind spreads the spores to other plants. In fact, powdery mildew spores can’t germinate or grow when foliage is wet, so overhead watering is sometimes recommended as a preventative on highly susceptible crops.
If left unchecked, powdery mildew will cause leaves to turn yellow, die and fall off. Following are some of the remedies and products available for preventing powdery mildew: