Were Are In The Middle Of Spring And “Blooming” Is The Word Of The Day

By Jannie Vaugh The pollen is drifting through the air, we had a wind storm and rain which nourished the gardens causing some damage lower to the ground but some older trees had a natural pruning. As with all spring projects I am behind on everything. The tomatoes need attending and the feeding schedule is a bit off, but “slow and steady gets the job … Continue reading Were Are In The Middle Of Spring And “Blooming” Is The Word Of The Day

DreamweaverartsMay 11, 2022May 10, 2022

Healthy Living

It Is All About The Soil

By Jannie Vaught Now that we have fertilizer shortages, and planting time is here what are we to do? Compost, Compost Compost! If you have not already been building a compost area, where you add green, brown, and soil in layers and turn and water you hopefully can still purchase pre-made compost. Read the label! Let woody fiber be the lower addition on the ingredient … Continue reading It Is All About The Soil

DreamweaverartsMarch 28, 2022March 27, 2022

Healthy Living

Growing Food As Medicine

By Jannie Vaught “Let food be your medicine let medicine be your food” A famous quote that has stood the test of time by the Greek physician Hippocrates. Regenerative agriculture has many layers of the health of the soil, and the learning just keeps going. A book to have in your gardening library is “From Dirt to Soil, One family’s journey into regenerative agriculture “by … Continue reading Growing Food As Medicine

DreamweaverartsMay 11, 2021May 10, 2021

Healthy Living

Snow And This And That

By Jannie Vaught A few of this and that, soil carbon indicators, minerals, and planting dates for zone 8A. We have had snow! Now that is a date to remember! With this comes questions about soil, planting times, and when to keep a weather eye out. Let’s look at soil organic matter in the soil. This is focusing on Garden location, not lawn or wild … Continue reading Snow And This And That

DreamweaverartsJanuary 14, 2021January 11, 2021

Healthy Living

Using What We Have At Hand For Our Gardens

By Jannie Vaught Preparation is simply improving fertility in our garden soil. There are tests you can have done, check the Ph. and look closely at the soil for how much clay, sand, and silt. Place a good deep amount of soil in a glass jar filled with water shake and let it settle. You will see the many layers and the carbon or plant … Continue reading Using What We Have At Hand For Our Gardens

DreamweaverartsMarch 3, 2020March 2, 2020

Healthy Living

Garden And Crop Rotation For Soil Health And Restoration

By Jannie Vaught Let’s have a look at a few simple ways to rotate our garden plants to keep soil fertility up and loss of nutrients for maximum growth low, by simply moving the plants around every year. Get your garden journal out, and start doing some drawings of last years garden. Write the date and location and growing zone. In this drawing write what … Continue reading Garden And Crop Rotation For Soil Health And Restoration

DreamweaverartsMarch 20, 2019March 19, 2019

Healthy Living

A Blessed Fall From The Drought Ridden Summer

By Jannie Vaught This season of fall is turning out to a blessed relief from the drought-ridden summer, and the fall garden is possible the best time to grow in growing zone 8a. As we now have had substantial rain and humidity to revive our native grasses and flower bulbs my fall garden is now ready for some delightful garden salads and greens. Just had … Continue reading A Blessed Fall From The Drought Ridden Summer

DreamweaverartsNovember 16, 2018November 15, 2018

Healthy Living

As We See Our Garden Growing

By Jannie Vaught The flowers turning into fruit and vegetables, we will also notice the potential for improvement to next years garden! First, we need to know and understand what we have under our feet. Here is a super easy way to do a home soil texture test for clay, sand, and silt. In a quart jar place a core sample of your soil. … Continue reading As We See Our Garden Growing

DreamweaverartsMay 11, 2018May 8, 2018

Healthy Living

Focusing On Tomatoes And Peppers For The Spring Garden

By Jannie Vaugh I don’t know about you but this has been a steady week of planting the garden! Tomatoes and peppers have been the first focus. They have been getting tall and leggy under the lights outgrowing their little pots. They have been outside to harden off and get used to the sun and wind. Now they are ready for going in the … Continue reading Focusing On Tomatoes And Peppers For The Spring Garden

DreamweaverartsMarch 28, 2018

Healthy Living

The Year of Soil

By: Jannie Vaught 2015 is the International Year of Soil If you eat and live on planet earth you know without soil, good soil we will cease to do either eat or live. The United Nations has declared it the year of soil, but do we really need the U.N. to tell us to take care of our soil? Anyone who farm’s, ranches, has groves of … Continue reading The Year of Soil

DreamweaverartsMarch 24, 2015March 24, 2015

Healthy Living

Improving Sub Soil Structure with Nature’s Growing Helper

By Jannie Vaught Another morning in the garden and as I was tending and doing more summer clean out, I realized that some of my raised beds were compacted and hard to dig into!! Gasp!! It is always so light and fluffy; so I decided to hand dig 12 inches down and pull out all old root and plants, next I got out my seed … Continue reading Improving Sub Soil Structure with Nature’s Growing Helper

DreamweaverartsOctober 6, 2014

Arts, Healthy Living

Planting The Fall Garden

By Jannie Vaught Just so you know the first estimated frost date for our county is Nov. 13. Last frost date is March 18. This is an estimate since our weather seems to be changing daily. For Thanksgiving spinach try this: Spinach has a 6 week duration from seed to plate. Mid August would be a good first plant time, then … Continue reading Planting The Fall Garden

DreamweaverartsAugust 5, 2014December 16, 2014