By George! - A Blog!

Has anyone measured the height of their trees by using the formula I posted last Friday? Please let me know how it turned out. I measured a nearby power pole that said it is forty feet tall and I wonder about the accuracy of this.
Here is how to do it, in case you […]

There’s a recent new trend developing, and it may have reached your neighborhood. A group of people are concerned about, even righteously indignant about, the arrival and successful establishment of various non-native plants.
For example, there’s the ornamental groundcover ,Periwinkle or Vinca major, that is colonising some shady stream banks. The Tamarix or Salt Cedar […]

The world is turning, and our recently developing warm temperatures trigger a lot of activity. Some of it is good (new leaves, flowers, growth of trees and shrubs, and so on). Other activities are not so good (the emergence of insects and animal pests).
It’s no accident that Red Spider Mites, aphids, leaf-eating […]

Just after the break of dawn something wonderful is happening in the corn patch. Try and be there, and you’ll be amazed.
In the still air the corn tassles will be throwing out clouds of yellow dust and it will be floating down to the silks of the plants. Pollination is happening. If it takes place […]