Tag: Gardening with Natives

  • Dividing Sword Ferns (Between Green Blobs)

    Dividing Sword Ferns (Between Green Blobs)

    Honestly, I hadn’t divided Sword Ferns in years, and had only the vaguest recollection of cutting through root masses with a strong, sharp knife. But to my surprise, each of the ferns that I worked with on this day was already “divided.”

  • Goodbye Humus

    Goodbye Humus

    I’ve been working on a blog about humus for several weeks (not the chickpea paste spelled with two “ems” but the “mysterious elixir” in soil). What I learned, to my surprise, was that humus probably never existed in the first place . . .

  • Transplanting a Native Trailing Blackberry

    Transplanting a Native Trailing Blackberry

    Today, a small Trailing Blackberry was the only native plant growing in a place where I wanted to put a new compost heap, so I decided to move it to another location. It’s a little early to start transplanting since we are still in the transitional period between the dry season and the wet season.…

  • After a September Rain – A Good Time to Weed a Sunny Edge

    After a September Rain – A Good Time to Weed a Sunny Edge

    We had some good rain in the last few days — a good time to weed a sunny edge.