Don't eat flowers if you have asthma, allergies or hay fever!Be careful to eat only flowers that you can positively identify as edible. Some flowers do have look-alike versions that are not edible!Use pansies are their peak, fully open with flat petals, avoid those that are starting to wilt or have crumbly edges. ... Read More »
A Bit More On Nitrogen…
Nitrogen is probably the most useful of all the elements to plants. It's important for good leaf development and color and is at the heart of foliage ornamentals and crop plants. Translation: Miracle-Gro works. (But is it safe?) But nitrogen is kind of like chocolate, too much of it is a bad thing. [This is why my stomach is hurting right now, I just polished off the girls Easter baskets and I feel sick.) But a little bit of dark chocolate is ... Read More »
Nitrogen
Plants love nitrogen. It's useful to them. Organic sources of nitrogen are best like compost, barnyard and pasture manure, cottonseed meal, and dried blood. (I know, I know, I'm not going for the dried blood either.) I'm sticking with the manure. Or maybe just the compost if I can't take the smell. ... Read More »
The Farmer
Therefore be patient, brethren until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. ... Read More »
