Sprouting Up Organically Blog

Well, we certainly hadn’t planned it that way, but once again Mother Nature had other ideas, this time in the form of Pacific Tree Frogs. They are apparently well entrenched around here, which we had an inkling of because we kept finding them hiding out in our greenhouse. We certainly welcomed them in there, figuring [...]

Integrated Pest Management is definitely the most challenging part of transitioning to a completely sustainable organic system for certification, or even if you aren’t. You can buy pots, dirt, and fertilizers, all pre-packaged and do exactly what you tell them to do. Even the seeds will do what you want most of the time, in [...]

Imagine going to all the effort of weeding, only to find out that the neighborhood cats and your own dogs have done you in again! My intrepid husband had once again rid our garden beds of weeds left from fall and “winter” (hello, we are in Southern California!), only to come out a day later [...]