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  • Getting rid of garden snails

    The pitfall of organic gardening is that chemicals are easy! Our garden doesn’t have many enemies. The household cat keeps rodents and lizards away. And the combination of hummingbirds and parrots seems to keep all other bird pests from doing too much damage. Our biggest problem has been garden snails. (Helix aspersa) Since it has…

  • How to Grow Artichokes in Southern California

    Several other great videos for SoCal gardeners on Pat Welch’s YouTube channel.

  • Garden Birds

    As much as we like gardening, we also love the ancillary things that a garden attracts. One of those things is our hummingbirds. There are three birds living in a nearby tree. The male sits on his perch most of the day, observing the garden. Besides watching them feed from my morning writing spot– I…

  • Late Fall Planting

    Admittedly, we’ve fizzled in both our zeal for gardening and our zeal for blogging about our garden in the last couple of months. Life got incredibly busy and we kind of went on cruise control in the backyard. Truth be told there hasn’t been a lot to report. As early Fall rains came, the weeds…