Hummingbird Food Preferences and Recipe: 
https://www.gardensall.com/hummingbird-food/

People love to put out hummingbird food to attract these little jewels, and for good reason. Not only are hummingbirds delightful to see in your garden, they also eat lots of bugs, so go ahead and give them some hummingbird food to attract them, and they’ll help out with mosquitoes and other insects while they’re visiting.

Dazzling Hummingbird Facts: 

In appearance, many hummingbirds sparkle like jewels of ruby, emerald, and sapphire. Here are some cool facts on these winged garden jewels.

Hummingbird Facts:
- Hummingbirds are amongst the smallest warm-blooded creatures on earth, averaging between .05-.16 oz, (the weight of a standard envelope is .169 oz).
- The humming comes from wings rotating at 50-70 times per second!
- Their top airspeed approaches 50MPH (in a dive). 1)
- They fly in any direction in an instant or hover in place, their body practically still, their wings a-blur.

So tiny, they can fall prey to a spider’s web, large spiders, lizards, frogs, bass fish, and an assortment of predatory birds. 

"Though dainty in appearance, hummers are voracious insect eaters." ~GardensAll.com

Hummingbird Food Preferences and Recipe

🌿⚡️🌳 In Our Garden 🌿⚡️🌳
https://www.gardensall.com/garden-newsletter-humble-gardener/

I warned them. Told them straight up. If you guys don’t put on some pumpkins, you’re outta here! And after fighting off squash vine borers, squash bugs, and powdery mildew, they still refused to do anything but grow more vines. The little fruits would form but never mature. So, out they came, and the remains were incinerated.

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We don’t have good photos of our pumpkin fruits, but the same thing that happened to some of our squash, happened to our pumpkins.

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Read or listen to the full update with photos here!
https://www.gardensall.com/garden-newsletter-humble-gardener/

🌿🌺🌳 What’s Happening in Your Garden 🌿🌺🌳

That’s our report, folks. Our big lesson is not to ask so much of our plants when we know better where to plant them. How about your week? We’d be delighted to hear what’s happening in you neck of the garden. You can post comments and/or photos up on our Facebook page, or send us an email.

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In the meanwhile . . .

May your gardens flourish and your harvests be bountiful, and when you look upon your little Eden, may you see that it is good.

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~Coleman Alderson

Garden Newsletter: Humble Gardener, Lessons, and Butterfly Plants

Newsletter: Garden Design App, Harvest and Edible Landscaping
https://www.gardensall.com/garden-design-app/

Hello friends! It's that time of year now for our midseason garden report card. Thanks to our fantastic garden design app, we can render a crop by crop report.

We can observe and remark how each crop grew and recommend planting the same variety next season. Or not! Here's just a snippet showing how the varieties of squash and tomatoes performed this year. We're using a 10-point ranking system along with pertinent notes.

Read or listen to the full newsletter here: https://www.gardensall.com/garden-design-app/

“May your gardens flourish and your harvests be bountiful, and when you look upon your little Eden, may you see that it is good.”

~Coleman Alderson, GardensAll.com

Keep Growing Great Gardens!

Newsletter: Garden Design App, Harvest and Edible Landscaping

Garden Newsletter: Fall Garden Maintenance And Tips

With three weeks of summer remaining before the fall equinox—as of this writing—we’re proceeding with the changeover to our fall/winter crops. So fall garden maintenance and tips is the theme for today.

Topics Discussed: 
- Fall Planting of Broccoli in Organic Straw Bales
- Burn Blight Plants
- Dead, Diseased and Dying Plants
- Burn Ordinances
- Row Covers
- Edible Landscaping
- What’s Happening in Your Garden? 

Here's the link to the full article and photos!

Garden Newsletter: Fall Garden Maintenance And Tips

Newsletter: Gardeners Believe in the Future
https://www.gardensall.com/to-plant-a-garden-is-to-believe-in-tomorrow/

One of the most popular quotes shared on gardening by gardeners is this quote by Audrey Hepburn: "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

Whether it's setting in fall transplants, sowing seeds, planting daffodil bulbs, or planting a sapling, Ms. Hepburn's oft-quoted remark is spot on. By taking up gardening, we initiate a relationship with nature and the future.

The cultivation of food and medicinal plants has been happening for eons. We may even consider that many faiths portray God (AKA the Creator) as the First Gardener. So when we don our garden attire and slip on our wellies, we are performing a reenactment of the original Gardener.

Newsletter: Gardeners Believe in the Future
https://www.gardensall.com/to-plant-a-garden-is-to-believe-in-tomorrow/

To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow

Loving Marconi Peppers - Red and Green!
https://www.gardensall.com/marconi-peppers/

We've grown the Marconi Peppers (red variety), Capsicum annum, for three straight growing seasons. These Marconi sweet peppers come on a bit late with beautiful long green fruits that gradually redden as the season progresses.

Marconi Peppers: 
- Slow to germinate
- Grows well in flats
- Easy to grow
- 80 Days to maturity
- Grows up to 6
- Plant ASAP after last frost
- Plants do best with support*

*One pointer for growing the Marconi Pepper is to provide support as it grows. Ours are nearly six feet tall now and have done well with the "Florida Weave" method lacing jute twine about every two feet up the stem.

Read the full article here: 
https://www.gardensall.com/marconi-peppers/

Loving Marconi Peppers - Red and Green!

Harvesting, Freezing and Storing Winter Squash
https://www.gardensall.com/storing-winter-squash/

The most popular winter squash next to pumpkins, is butternut squash. But when it comes to winter squash, gardeners have a wealth of selections to choose from. The squash family is huge.

All types of winter squash belong in the Cucurbitaceae family, the same family as cucumbers, watermelon and summer squash. With over 975 species in 98 genera, winter squash is a versatile, long-lasting staple food that comes in all shapes, sizes and colors.

Due to the unique shapes and blend of fall colors, winter squash is the most popular for seasonal autumn decorations. However, these colorful squash also make delicious and varied table-fare.

Harvesting, Freezing and Storing Winter Squash

Fall Gardening: Gynura Procumbens -
https://www.gardensall.com/fall-gardening-gynura-procumbens/

Fall is definitely on! The dogwood trees are loaded with red berries and the birds (cardinals, goldfinches, brown thrushes, and gray catbirds) are all vying for a beak full. Other birds are visiting as well.

The monkey-like calls of gray-barred owls and the red-shouldered hawk's shrieks seem to alternate as if having a raptor-to-raptor chat. And, of course, we have the perpetual hums and twitters of the little hummingbirds. Here's a photo of a young male with just a dot of ruby iridescence on his throat. 

Eventually, the one "jewel" will expand into the full throated radiance that distinguishes the male of the species.

https://www.gardensall.com/fall-gardening-gynura-procumbens/

Fall Gardening: Gynura Procumbens

Growing Longevity Spinach:
https://www.gardensall.com/longevity-spinach/

How Does Longevity Spinach Taste?

Gynura leaves are very slightly fuzzy textured and taste somewhat similar to malabar spinach. Both have a strongly greens taste, and when cooked, the longevity has a bit of a viscous quality reminiscent of okra. 

For some, it may take a bit of getting acquainted with the flavor and texture. We've enjoyed it most mixed in with our leafy salad, green juice, and in soups.

https://www.gardensall.com/longevity-spinach/

Growing Longevity Spinach—Gynura Procumbens—a Medicinal Protein Vegetable

Cordless Leaf Blower: Stihl versus Greenworks
https://www.gardensall.com/leaf-blower/

Blowing Through Our History of Leaf Blowers...
Preparing for this leaf blower comparison, I found myself reminiscing on the various leaf blowers we've owned over the years.

Cordless Leaf Blower Stihl Vs Greenworks

GardensAll is about all things gardening and growing, with a keen interest in self reliance. https://www.gardensall.com 

Our focus mostly on edible gardening with a bent toward organic, permaculture and edible landscaping for sustainability. But of course we also love flowers and landscaped gardens too. It's just that these days, we find ourselves investing more time and resources toward growing edible and medicinal foods and flowers... many of which are also beautiful.

Many in our audience are interested in gardening for income, either for a living or supplemental, so we cover that topic a good bit. Some are interested in how to create gardening businesses, and other small family farming enterprises, which is also an area of interest that we'll be covering more.

We're also very interested in preventive and holistic "medicine" through medicinal herbs and healthy foods from the garden, so you'll see a lot about that here as well.

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