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La semana pasada encontramos luciérnagas en el jardín. Había leído que se comían los pulgones. Las llevamos a mi planta preferida pues tenía algunos. En tres días no queda ningún pulgón y la luciérnaga triplicó su tamaño. Estamos anonadados con ellas. ❤️
 

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My wife and I have had a couple of gardens for the past 10 years. We have a division of labor. I do the heavy stuff, tilling, composting, cultivating, etc; and she does the planting, weeding, etc. We have had a few raised beds, but last year my wife spent so much time on her knees, weeding, etc, that she developed arthritis. So, this year we are going all raised beds, except for corn and vining stuff like melons and zuchinni.

Last year, I hired some Amish carpenters to turn an old shed, smokehouse, into a greenhouse, so today, my wife just transferred the basement-grown seedlings out to the greenhouse. Michigan is really tricky. We just had a frost a few days ago and it is not uncommon to get a frost in May. So, we usually hold off on putting things in the ground until late May.

Food out of the garden is so much better and healthier than anything you buy in a store. If you can only grow some spinach or lettuce in a trough or bucket, it is worth it.

Here's a gardening tip. For years, we planted marigolds throughout the garden as pest control. I wasn't sure if it worked. It is just a tip I picked up from gardeners. Well, last year, I neglected to plant marigolds, and these white butterflies laid eggs everywhere. When the caterpillars emerged, they devoured all the broccoli and cauliflower and were working on the kale. So, this year, it is back to the marigolds.
 
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Watchman said:
My wife and I have had a couple of gardens for the past 10 years. We have a division of labor. I do the heavy stuff, tilling, composting, cultivating, etc; and she does the planting, weeding, etc. We have had a few raised beds, but last year my wife spent so much time on her knees, weeding, etc, that she developed arthritis. So, this year we are going all raised beds, except for corn and vining stuff like melons and zuchinni.

Last year, I hired some Amish carpenters to turn an old shed, smokehouse, into a greenhouse, so today, my wife just transferred the basement-grown seedlings out to the greenhouse. Michigan is really tricky. We just had a frost a few days ago and it is not uncommon to get a frost in May. So, we usually hold off on putting things in the ground until late May.

Food out of the garden is so much better and healthier than anything you buy in a store. If you can only grow some spinach or lettuce in a trough or bucket, it is worth it.

Here's a gardening tip. For years, we planted marigolds throughout the garden as pest control. I wasn't sure if it worked. It is just a tip I picked up from gardeners. Well, last year, I neglected to plant marigolds, and these white butterflies laid eggs everywhere. When the caterpillars emerged, they devoured all the broccoli and cauliflower and were working on the kale. So, this year, it is back to the marigolds.
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Caléndulas, aceite de Neem, jabón potásico y tierra de diatomeas son los mejores para las plagas. En mi huerto nunca faltan!!
 
I painted our fence last week and still need to get to the rest of the yard. I have a veritical garden as well as 6 raised beds and lots of containers hanging on our fences. I have growing on my dining room table kale, tomatoes, squash, arugula, peppers, romaine, cucumbers.

I need to plant some basil and others. I have a huge dill plant that I grew indoors this winter that's now about three feet tall. I love it. I clip some off for my salads.

I love gardening. My husband is an arborist. I have a bunch of work to do this year, but I'll post pictures. We're going to experiment with some new patches in our yard this year and see how they do. I also bought some new strawberry plants for the containers on the fence and they have red flowers. They were called sweet berry something or other, so I'm looking forward to trying them. Our other strawberries are already blossoming.

It's a stunning spring this year. It's peak right now with all the crab apple, pear, cherry, plum and magnolias blossoming as well as tulips and other bulbs.

I think Jehovah made gardening to be very physically healthy for us as well as soothing to our mental state.

It's been said that Jenny Butchart, founder of Butchart gardens was a JW and one of the anointed.
 
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It's been said that Jenny Butchart, founder of Butchart gardens was a JW and one of the anointed.
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I did not know that. That is far out, as the hippies used to say. We toured Butchart Gardens back around 1998. Closest you will ever get to Eden this side of Armageddon. The last image in the article Imagining Paradise is Butchart. (I did not take the photo)

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Watchman said:
I did not know that. That is far out, as the hippies used to say. We toured Butchart Gardens back around 1998. Closest you will ever get to Eden this side of Armageddon. The last image in the article Imagining Paradise is Butchart. (I did not take the photo)

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Evidently her husband was not a JW although he was a Freemason, and she used to witness to him about the earth being turned back into a paradise. The property that the gardens are on used to be his cement quarry for his cement business and he said to her " If you can turn THIS into a paradise, then I'd like to see THAT".

So here's what she did:

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This is the video that lit my heart afire. I immediately booked myself into a Permacultlure Design course and got certified. I thought that this was the closest to fulfilling the prophecy in Isaiah about the desert blossoming forth more than anything on this side of Armageddon:


Here's a 2024 update:

 
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