Planting Heirloom Tomato Seeds — Welcome back. It's officially Spring! That means preparing for the upcoming gardening season. The snow is quickly melting and soon my gardens will be visible once again. They recently have been covered under about 2 feet of snow; a blanket of endless white. Obviously, it is too soon to even…

Soon I Will Start My Heirloom Tomatoes From Seed — Welcome back to my Trusty Gardener series. Today is the first day of Spring. It was a nice sunny day with temperatures in the upper 40s, but still a cold wind. That’s where the greenhouse comes in. It will protect plants from the wind while producing a nice warm environment…

Volume 57-Tag Along With Me on My Sometimes Boring Sometimes Interesting Sometimes Humorous Journey Through Life — Welcome back to my journal. It’s hard to believe it’s mid-March already. Spring begins officially next week on the 20th. Before we know it we’ll be starting to clean up our yards and preparing the garden. I have already planted some seeds, some using the Winter Sowing technique, and others…

Volume 6 -This Will be the 4th Snowstorm So Far In March — Welcome back to the Weather Watcher series. I hope you are enjoying my articles and my new publication, Weather Watchers Central. I started this publication in January and have 8 followers to date. I would appreciate those of you who read my articles to also follow the publication. I have…

March is the Time to Start Seeds For Mid to Late May Planting — Welcome back. It’s March already. In this part of the country, March means it’s time to start seeds indoors for outdoor planting in late May. As I write this article, the weather is turning cold once again with about a foot of snow cover and wind chills in the low…

Volume 56-Tag Along With Me on My Sometimes Boring Sometimes Interesting Sometimes Humorous Journey Through Life — Welcome back. Another year of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is in the books. Did you participate? I’m hoping the answer is yes. This a very worthwhile citizen science project that provides valuable data worldwide. This article will explore both my data and overall worldwide data.

Part 1-How I Got Started Collecting Baseball Cards — Have You Ever Collected Baseball Cards? I started collecting baseball cards as a kid growing up in the 1960s. My older brother and father got me interested in baseball in the mid to late 1960s. My Dad was a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers (he was born and lived there…

Volume 5 -This Wild Winter of Extremes Continues — Welcome back to the Weather Watcher series. I hope you are enjoying my articles and my new publication, Weather Watchers Central. I am just getting started with this publication and have 6 followers to date. I would appreciate those of you who read my articles to also follow the publication…

Winter Sowing: Planting Seeds In Containers and Placing Them Out in the Cold Until Spring — Welcome back to my Trusty Gardener series. The weather lately feels more like Spring with temperatures way above normal most of the time. We have again lost most of our snow that had returned towards the end of January. This is the second time this Winter that we lost a…