I have a Tower Garden inside of my greenhouse and it’s just going nuts! It grows faster than two people can eat! And we eat a green salad nearly every day from the Tower Garden. I give away greens to my friends! When I see the wilted so called fresh produce in the grocery store. […]
Bob Stafford
Winter Bird Feeding
Birds need additional energy to make it through the cold nights. They also need to replenish the lost energy when wake up in the morning. I always recommend that you have your bird feeders full the last couple of daylight hours and at daybreak. This is to help birds endure the long winter nights and […]
Tower Garden First Frost
My Tower Garden had its first frost Tuesday night. I didn’t realize that it was going to get down to freezing!. When I got up on Wednesday morning Jack Frost had painted the whole outside with white sparkles! I ran outside to check my Tower Garden and found the leaves to be frozen. I feared […]
Urban Garden My New Potting Bench
Urban Garden Potting Bench For my birthday this year Bob built me a new potting bench out of cedar. He stained it for me so it matches our fence. Bob enclosed the back of the shelf’s so that pots and ‘stuff’ on them would be hidden. He originally planned to enclose the whole back, but […]
Vegan Salad Recipe
Vegan Salad Recipe This is the recipe for my home made Linda’s Entree’ Vegan Salad Yield 3 large servings 2/3 c cooked, drained lentils. Cook it separately from the Basmati brown rice and the wild rice. Takes 15 to 20 minutes. Cool 1/2 c. cooked Basmati brown rice 1/2 c. cooked wild rice. The two […]
Urban Garden Another Flower to Attract Hummingbirds
Urban Garden Container Garden Hummingbirds Fountain Plant Russelia equsetifornis The Fountain Plant or Russelia equsetifornis is the one! Its brilliant red flowers appear on 12-inch long sprays throughout the warm season. The blooms are 3/4 “to 1” in length and are narrowly tubular, making them ideally suited for the long, slender bills of hummingbirds. Other […]
Tower Garden T-5 Growing Lights
Tower Garden Urban Garden It is now fall and the days are too short. I have too much shade on my green house so I needed to add some light to my Tower Garden. I will be growing all winter maximizing my investment.. From my online store, I purchased a set of 4 T-5 lights. […]
Tower Garden Winter Storage
Tower Garden Urban Garden I don’t have anywhere to store my Tower Garden inside for the winter. After I cleaned it I put a plastic leaf bag over the top and wrapped a second leaf bag around the bottom. I taped the bags down with my greenhouse tape. Now my Tower Garden will stay clean […]
Tower Garden – Cleaning our Tower Gardens
Tower Garden Urban Garden The crops of vegetables I grew over the summer in my Tower Garden have been picked and eaten with gusto. The flavors and size of the plants and produce were truly amazing. Now it’s time to clean the Tower Garden and get two of them ready to plant for the winter. […]
Tower Garden in the Snow
TOWER GARDEN IN THE SNOW Here are a few photos of my friend Doug Barlows Tower Garden on his deck in the snow last year. Doug purchased a vinyl greenhouse at a big box store that covered his two Tower Gardens. He added grow lights and an aquarium heater in the reservoir. His Tower Gardens […]