Square Foot Gardening

Hi, folks. I’m sorry I haven’t written a blog post in several weeks. My health issues have flared up so badly, that I haven’t even been able to think clearly, let alone do much work in my garden. My doctors finally diagnosed the problem (yet another autoimmune disease), and I’ve started new medications that are slowly improving my condition. So, I hope to be able to stay caught up in my garden and on this website at some point soon.

It’s incredibly frustrating for a gardener to get very sick during spring.  There are so many things that need to get done! My sister has had to do most of my share of our spring gardening this year, but we’re still late in planting a number of crops.

I was occasionally able to stroll through our garden to see how things were going. Most of the plants in our mini fruit garden were in full bloom this year, but even during the occasional really nice spring days we had last month, I saw extremely few pollinating bees in my garden – either honey bees or native pollinators. [Continue reading]