Labor Day weekend with is storybook perfect weather is over. It was warm yet breezy, and most importantly, not humid. Let's hope this...

It's August. It's hot, and it's dry. This is normal for southeast Ohio, but that doesn't mean I don't complain regularly about the...

Check out what's happening on the farm: A new gnome has arrived and taken up residence in the shade bed. Who wouldn't choose this...

When you're in the business of selling plants, you're going to do everything you can to sell more plants. To this end, the landscape...

What do beginning gardeners need to know to succeed, when success means getting an acceptable harvest and not feeling like they are...

Spring is in full swing. The multitudinous shades of green are eye-wateringly intense. Perennials are popping up everywhere in sight, as...

What better way to pass time while we're stuck at home than watch tadpoles develop? Check out the population: https://youtu.be/QoP1E3okEPE

Much has changed since my last post. The bars are closed. No one has money. Preppers are no longer viewed as paranoid fringe-dwellers,...

It's great to see climate change in the news as if it is settled science (it is), but it is possible that we have moved beyond climate...

Things are happening at Turtle Paradise. The digging continues.

We don't mess around here at Turtle Paradise. Check out the progress. https://youtu.be/ro9hCV_BD98

Check it out Snowy day at the pond

I love gardening and all its associated tasks: mulching, weeding, planting, and harvesting. Most of all I like eating. Gardening is great...

It's been an extremely mild winter here in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Not the warmest I can remember, but temperatures have definitely been...

It's in these last few days of January that even the strongest among us feel ourselves to be on the edge of what used to be called...

Check out the turtle pond progress: https://youtu.be/UltjHFcXMfo

The great Gene Logsdon was of the belief that if people would realize that traveling was overrated, and work on turning the spot where...

"Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile...

Here at Turtle Paradise we acknowledge that the 70's was the best decade ever. However, a lot of great stuff came out of the 80's too,...

This photograph shows off my Japanese fiber banana (Musa basjoo), the hardiest of the bananas, which is thriving in zone 6 here in Ohio....