3 cups of finely chopped fresh spinach or two cups thawed and drained frozen
2 eggs, farm fresh if you got them!
1 cup of cottage cheese
2 tsp of your favorite seasoning salt blend
Blend together in a bowl
Meat Filling
1 pound of lean beef, grass fed if possible and local is always better, support your local farmers if you can
1 larger purple onion finely diced
2 garlic finely diced
1 quart tomato pasta sauce
1 quart garlic and herb pasta sauce
1 tbsp Montreal Steak spice
Precook your burger when almost done, add your onion and garlic cook till tender and then add your sauce to heat it though with spices.
Cheese layers, one block of mozzarella shredded, or approx. six to eight cups
Preheat oven to 400 degrees, in a 9 by 13 pan, add a small layer of meat sauce on bottom, layer of dry ready to cook Lasagna noodles, it will take a full box, four across and one broken and layered on the bottom sideways.
Then add the full green layer, with a fine covering of cheese , then more noodles, then full meat layer, then noodles, then meat again and a heavy covering of cheese, sprinkle the cheese with some extra Montreal steak spice blend
Bake covered in tinfoil for a hour, remove the tinfoil, bake another 15 min till golden brown and bubbly, allow five minutes to cool and set up before cutting and serving.
Leftovers keep beautiful in the fridge, and while they can be reheated in the microwave, ideally reheat your leftovers in the oven if possible.
While i don’t make it to often, it is a requested by the D&D Kiddo pack along with others, when its a pot luck event, its asked in a hopeful voice, want to bring a pan of your Lasagna 🙂 I am not sure there is a higher recommend then that really!
Each cut was chosen with care, thank you to the Fine Line’s Landscape company that came out to do our over 50 plus hard fruit trees this year for us! With so many young trees, it was just awesome to get such a pro in to make sure they get off to the right start and shaping.
I am pleased to report that all the fruit trees that made it though the winter and are live are thriving and have good fruiting spurs on them at this time, so we are looking good that way, only had a tiny bit of winter die back on one tree noted and it was very minor indeed. We had very minor losses to report so far on anything planted five, four and three years ago in the Fruity Boogaloo, Walk on the wild side food forest, Park garden including the dog park..
We did lose the king hawthorn, and one cherry and one peach tree in the park garden, the peach was not one of my Sib C but i got took again being promised i had a peach that would produce in my zone but once again within two years it died.. I am staying with my cold hardy sib c until they better a much better one then they have on the market at this time. The cherries died from wet two years ago and drought last year, so those spots will need drainage, build up before they get replanted.
My oldest sour cherry tree with is 25 years is reaching its end life, this year will be its final one and this fall, we will cut it down and put the wood to dry for smoking and spoon making i think as well. It seems highly fitting that a tree that has made so many amazing pie fillings, tart fillings, juice and more should live on as a hand carved beautiful wooden spoon in my kitchen.. Cherry wood is a excellent smoking wood, not only for its flavor but also for its rich color finish on a low and slow smoke
Thankfully we have a lovely med aged sour cherry tree that is coming into its productive years and i will order in a new Montmorency Cherry tree to plant in 2027. It is one of the perks of the farm is that you can plan years ahead for keeping a steady productive food forest or fruit production.
The weather is perfect for pruning this week, as well as getting the dormant oil spaying done, today there is little to no wind to speak off, it was overcast but sunny at the same time. Are you pruning this week or next? Have you already finished your pruning? We still need more snow melt out in order to have access to fruit bushes in a many places, but the haskaps and josta berry bushes in the one pear guild is clear and accessible, so they will be pruned and cleaned up first and foremost.
The best fruit will get bagged this year during the right time in the growing stage, and i am hoping that a skunk will come soon and start digging for grubs, but if not, i will soon be raking under and around the plums and be setting up a mobile cover to scatter seed and get my chicken at the job, they love to dig, and they like grubs and i need to get as many eaten as i can.
I got in a specially breed type of tomato that is for growing in pots for small spaces, i started six seeds, and i have six plants, five big ones and one wee one that is still growing but no where near the same as the others, and i will for sure be saving seed on these.
They needed their last pot up to hold them over till planting time in the spring garden and i am growing out one in a five gallon pot to see how it does in that way as well, to compare inground vs pot only. They were in flower, and to be honest i should have gotten them split out and potted up a few weeks ago but hey life get busy.
They were started in 1 inch cells, and transplanted into sets of two into gallon pot, but it was time to move them up, one went into a 5 gallon pot, one went into a three gallon and the rest went into 2 gallon. The one in the 5 is my trail pot and will stay in it all summer, the 3 gallon will go to the kitchen garden, one or two of the two gallon will be at the plant sale and the rest will go into the soil directly.
They were very ready to be moved! Look at those stunning roots,
These are recycled pots, they were washed out and given a slight soak with a dilute vinegar blend, and trust me by reusing pots from year to year, it saves you a lot of money, i might not like plastic pots but i will use them over and over again. I have not yet tried the fabric grow bags? Have you used them, do you like them? what do you like, what don’t you like, what kind of life span do you get on them, i have larger pots that i have been able to use for the past 5 to 10 plus years and i have been known to stop and collect garden pots out of the recycling after may long weekend plantings
Frugal Tip, at least here in my part of the country and in many places in Canada, May long weekend is one of the biggest planting weekends, the garden centers overflow with folks buying their pre-starts and the very same week, or the next depending on what your county does weekly or biweekly, a quick drive in town (not so much country) will show you stacks of pots in the blue bins. This is a perfect way to stock up on 2, 3, 4 inch pots, and if the person was careful, flats, sadly most of the thinner flat often get cracked, broken when they are getting the plants out so there are always less of them.. Then you might hit the jackpot and find a stack of larger pots, those tend to be found in the newer build areas as they are the ones more likely to be planting trees and bushes
But as you can see the one drain hole has a bit of damage on this big one and those are some very big drain holes that will let soil out in my plant area, not something i am keen on.. I just used some clean dry straw in the bottom of my pot, do not use hay, you can get creative here or you could be potting up in a greenhouse and just don’t care if a bit of soil spills out, it will get cleaned up and added back to the soil bin etc.
Yes, i stuffed it down a bit more before planting, now it was time to prep the plants, which meant taking off the flower clusters, i want the plant focused on settling in and it will be back in bloom soon enough, i wanted to deep pot the plant even more solid rooting and that means pinching off the bottom stems
This how the plant came out of the pot, leaves to the soil line, if you look up the stem to the left you can find the V split, that is what i was looking for, i then pinches off all the leaves/side stems
and then potted it up to that very top line, that whole stem will soon enough push out more roots and add to the strength of the plant in the pot and help it be more productive though this coming garden season.
My trimming pile continued to grow as i did each plant but it will be well worth it. All of them are happily settled into their new pots, watered in and back under their grow lights, i am looking forward to lots of yummy cherry tomato’s in our future.
For small scale gardeners, with limited space or who are extending their gardens by planting in pots, have your bought and grown the different commercially available breed seed for pots and if so was it worth it compared to using regular types..
So far, i am very impressed with the compact growth on these, they are thriving, now we will see how they compare to hold up for a full growth season and of course, do the tomato’s taste good! I mean can they compare with a sweet one million, which is one of my favorite cherry tomato’s but it can grow well over 6 feet plus and its massive
While these were costly seeds and they only had ten in the pack, their germination rate was outstanding, and for someone needing two of them per year, that pack would give at least a three year supply plus after the first year, you could seed save and never need to buy these again, peas, beans and tomato’s are some of the best seed saving things to start with
Its important to remember that despite what the tic toc says or all the fancy stuff you see, growing some of your own food can be done frugal, does it look better in a fancy pot with organic soil on a wheeling stunning wooden stool, maybe with a fancy glass self watering bulb part art part function.. if you can and want to go for it. but you don’t need to.. a found pot, dirt mixed with compost, heck dirt with homemade found compost tea will get the job done and done well!
Today is the day here in the north hemisphere that we will have equal amounts of sunlight vs darkness and tomorrow there will be even more light! We have already been getting more light since the darkest day in Jan, and as always the light hits different for warmth and angles in feburary, it helps warm the house living room for solar heating, but it is not till now that we will really see and feel the difference.
My Planter Tomato plants need to be sized up into the bigger pots that will be carried out for deck time soon enough and i will have cherry tomatoes for fresh eating by no later then early april This will take place this weekend, it can wait no longer, they need to get split as there are two per pot at the moment, and they need to be moved up in size till they go out for their spring placement in the kitchen gardens. The cucumber plants are much smaller, so they will hold in their current pots till transplant time
The instant straw bed, spring extender will be built at the front of the house this weekend so we can get the rhubarb seedlings potted up and moved out, they are more then ready! I am very hopeful that they can be moved out within the next few weeks, with each tree pot having three starts, they need more space and very soon! Each one of these will give me a amazing multi rooted new rhubarb plant that will add a lovely new row of rhubarb to the farm.
If you live in a climate that can grow rhubarb, it is the spring/early spring fruit stretcher, as apple is for the fall offerings. I have a good amount of rhubarb but i want to grow even more and start offering it for sale regular at the farm stand. As i don’t want to split and set back my main plants, young starter plants are idea as i have a goutweed issue in my main patch area in the old garden area and i don’t want to risk even a little bringing that over to the park garden so i wanted to start with full new plants there, i had ordered in new ones for last year but they were very poor shape when they arrived and with the high drought, poor soil turned and so on, i am quite sure they died, maybe they will surprise me and come back this spring but its highly unlikely.. These will get potted up and be grown bigger in the nursery garden and transplanted out for a early fall planting and then bedded down for winter 26/27, and first picking will be light in 27 and full on 28.
Once they get shifted that space needs to get the heat mat in place and time to get those peppers seeded into starting trays! My injury has set me back about a two weeks on this but i am now able to start doing smaller things like this again..
Don’t laugh to much but i was just excited to fold laundry yesterday, i am happy that the doctor says that another 4 weeks (total 6 weeks) is the average time to heal my type, i got to see the doctor late this week, and got more information, and thankfully the ER doctor was a bit wrong, he thought more was wrong then there was but he only had the x-rays where the bone doc had the CT scan as well so he could see more of what was and was not damaged!
The local bird and small animal sale is coming up first weekend of april and i am on the hunt for a few things to add back to the farm, the first is quail, i am on the look out for some nice breeding trio’s but i will also look at breeding pairs or sets of boxes of four or six females as i know i can get the males easy enough in a different box. I am also looking for Keets but might have to settle for a breeding adult set or trio there as well. maybe i will get really lucky and there will be some high qaulity hatching eggs which would be awesome.
Boy do i miss having rabbits! I am giving a hard think to adding one or two rabbits back onto the farm, not for breeding per say but for manure.. I am not sure i want grow out pens and breeding does year round and so on.. but to get back to having instant “cold” manure for use is truly under rated, certainly plants in my gardens just love the rabbit compost! Might come home with a bunny or two from the sale as well, we will see!
They say compost is compost but its not true, fowl is different from horse, horse is very different from cow which is night and day different from sheep/goat and same for rabbit!
Are you looking to add small stock to your homestead, backyard or in the case of the quail, anywhere you want really!
So the only thing i plan to add to the gardens this year other then free foraged wild fruits bushes and such is to get a hold of a friend and see if i can get some Sea buckthorn starts from them, i have held off getting them as they are not a favorite of mine but my research on oils and them liking salty edges has made me rethink them.
What do you on your farm, not including livestock, that is a fat producer? If you have a hidden forage spot, i will count it but its not near as easy as folks think, we are so used to “cutting fat” out, that we don’t have a grasp how little fat is produced when you remove the livestock, i mean yes you have nut and seed fats but to get them, oh, not near as easy as you think that’s for sure
I will be adding more Asparagus, this time in to the guilds in the park garden but i am also going to start my own for cost savings and to get back to the point of having male and female plants on the farm.. I was like i should start some and then realized i had fallen into a “WTF’ marketing trap.. i only have planted two year old bare roots, ALL MALES! productive yes, in terms of the plants giving me healthy beautiful seed to save and start new babies.. NOPE, that changes this year!
My Dear Hubby and my awesome boys!
Onward in these troubled times, may you lean into the beauty of the world around you, while also working on layers of ways to help yourself, your family, your community!
While i work away on a new post on tinned fish, I though you might like to see some photos from my day.
Fancy just turned two this year and we had her happy gotcha day this month, she is growing up into a lovely combo of house/farm dog. She is also a very alert little dog that barks to get the big boy’s backup
The weather has been all over the place, we have had rain, freezing rain, sleet, high wind up to 100 km a hour, fog, and snow. The ice crystals certainly added some lovely effect on plant stems as they have been melting out
Below, i am not sure why this big old sage plant didn’t get fully harvested late last fall but it did not, and it came though the winter remarkably intact, it just seemed so pretty to me with the ice edges with the grey overcast sky and the fresh snow cover
So many birds, everyone know where the BOSS meal is locally and they are coming in droves with this wild storms and weather
There are 30 to 50 plus red wing black birds that arrived two days ago and have stayed for the storms but i expect they will move on very soon, i hope i will be able to get some good photos before they do but i have already done my once a day down the stairs and back up so perhaps tomorrow, fingers crossed!
I am very much enjoying my flowers from DH and Miss R, so pretty, the roses will not last long but i will enjoy them while i have them, the much older bunch of pretties from hubby is still holding on well, such a lovely color!
Are you on true spring, or false spring or what spring lol!?
I love a good canned Tea Concentrate Hibiscus has so many traditional health benefits that it was the clear winner for me to make up a batch for the fridge first and then for the canning pantry!
Hibiscus Tea Concentrate Recipe
Hibiscus Tea Syrup Recipe- 38th edition Blue Book Guide to Preserving
Makes approx 4 cups
½ cup dried hibiscus flowers
2 cups sugar
3 cups water
Combine dried hibiscus flowers and water at med heat, bring to a boil, drop down to a simmer for 5 min, then remove from heat and let steep for 30 min, strain, you will need to gently press the flowers to get them to release their liquid
Return the tea to the clean med size pot, add the sugar and extras if using them bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer, simmer for 5 min, Into a clean pint jar, at which point you can either water bath can it for 15 for shelf stable or cool to room temp and store in the fridge for up to 4 weeks.
I have a high tea pot luck coming in april and taking premade shelf stable hibiscus syrup is very much on my list, along with a number of fancy fixings for use as a iced tea. The fact that this lovely ruby red floral with a sour lemonade style bit to it can be served hot or cold or added to other drinks or recipes makes it so useful!
Yes, I added in some dried ginger root to my batch, I find fresh or candied or dried ginger root adds a lovely balance to the tea personally.
So what Is Hibiscus Tea?
Hibiscus tea is an herbal infusion made from the dried calyces (sepals) of the Hibiscus sabdariffa flower, commonly known as roselle. Native to tropical regions of Africa, this vibrant flower produces fruit-like structures surrounded by fleshy, crimson calyces that are harvested, dried, and used to prepare the tea.
It has been used in traditional medicine across various cultures for centuries. In Egypt, it’s known as “karkade” In Mexico and Central America, it’s called “agua de Jamaica” In West Africa, hibiscus tea or “bissap” is considered the national drink in countries like Senegal.
Let dig into it a bit more in detail
Nutritional Profile of Hibiscus Tea
Here’s a look at the nutritional composition of 240ml (8 oz) of unsweetened hibiscus tea:
Nutrient
Amount per 240ml
Calories
5-10 kcal
Carbohydrates
0-2 g
Protein
0 g
Fat
0 g
Sugar
0 g
Fiber
0 g
Vitamin A
Trace amounts
Vitamin C
12-20 mg
Calcium
7-10 mg
Iron
0.1-0.2 mg
Magnesium
3-5 mg
Phosphorus
3-5 mg
Potassium
10-15 mg
Anthocyanins
Significant amounts
Organic Acids
Present (citric, malic, tartaric)
I think most of you know that i collect teapots and teacups, and maybe some cookie jars and bean pots and rolling pins among other things 🙂 I just adore this teapot found by DH at a second store this past winter, it has all the flowers from different Canadian Provinces on both the plate and around the cup itself with a Canadian flag inside. I did a little research on it and here is what i found
Royal Albert “Our Emblems Dear” Cup and Saucer, Canada’s Provincial Flowers Gainsborough Shape Made in England, Released in 1980’s
What is your province or states flower, I have always loved my Alberta wild rose and i still grow Alberta wild rose in my Ontario gardens but i do adore a number of the other provinces flowers as well Do you have a favorite tea cup or mug with flowers on it? if so what are yours?
How Much Hibiscus Tea Can You Drink in a Day?
For Adults: 2-3 cups (480-720 ml) daily is considered safe and potentially beneficial for most healthy adults.
Maximum Safe Amount: Limiting consumption to no more than 4 cups daily is advisable to avoid potential side effects.
When we can’t be as picky on certain cuts in the store due to prices or if we are buying bulk quarters or half’s of whole animals, we are going to end up with a lot more bone in cuts. So many recipes call or we just prefer boneless meat for certain dishes.
This recipe above uses the left over bones and meat bits to make a lovely soup with, the key take aways are simple, don’t long simmer your bones with the meat on.. instead deep roast them till lots of lovely brown bits on the bone, then remove that tender roasted meat for adding at the last moments of the dish to reheat, then use the bones, and that pan deglaze to add depth of flavor and mouth feel to the end soup dish itself.
Ideally you want to plan your bone roasting to go with something else so you are not heating your oven just for this or do remember that a smaller Toaster Oven is a excellent choice to save power costs as you are heating a much smaller oven while still having all the benefits of using a oven.
Last but not least, while this style does work better with med to larger bones, it can be done with smaller as well, When was the last time you roasted bones, waste not, want not!
when he decided that he needed a spoof on Jason from Friday the 13th, having a regular day on the farm, tongue in cheek, who was i to say no. He did the photos as selfies and i did the backend work on them.
The horses need their hay!
Its maple season, the sap is running!
Oh, did you bring us mealworms and cuddles
Lets top up the wood box
Relaxing on the deck with a coffee after chores are done
There is a joy in being creative, be it whatever floats your boat! Its been a limiting week on some things but it was so fun to watch him get excited about the idea, create his outfit, storyboard it and then make it happen over a course of a couple days, I enjoyed my end of the project, and remember, farmers, homesteaders, and to a point gardeners and more, we never get days off so we might as well play when we can 🙂
How can it be Friday already, and Friday the 13th to boot, speaking of boots, i am currently wearing a air cast boot along with a wrist brace as i took a good old fashioned fall a week ago.
When i fell, i knew from the level of pain that i had for sure hurt my foot, not rolled my ankle, i have done that before this was different, a very different deeper kind of pain and while we got me up, and got me in and leg up and iced, it only took me a short while to write Dear Hubby that as soon as he was done work, we needed to head to the ER to get x-rays
Farmers, homesteaders, Gen X whatever you want to call us, we are as stubborn as the day is long, i do understand the irony of telling him to finish up his work day first but honestly, i was in for hours wait at the er, why not get those work hours in.
Of we headed and much to my surprise, 7 hours, and 18 x-rays later in a combo of my foot, my wrist and my hip, i was out the door $225 poorer with a wrist brace and a air cast boot, while the ER visit was covered, the medical equipment was not, now it might be possible that maybe we can see if we can get any back though our personal medical coverage from work, we will see. They gave me meds for the pain and they were nice for the few hours they lasted and then back to over the counter meds for that.
Still to be fair, within 24 hours i was called for my CT scan to be booked and shortly after that, i got the call to book with the orthopedist at the hospital for the start of my follow up care. While i am happy that things are lined up, i can already tell my wrist is fine, it will heal and heal well, my hip is bruised and i have some other bruises and even a good scrape but my foot is another matter, a week later and the deep lines of bruising are still appear and growing. To put my weight down wrong can still take my breath away and while i have made a point of getting downstairs once for a short while every two days, i need to learn how to do the stairs safely, i have been mainly living on the second floor.
The master bedroom is huge, so half of it has been moved into a mini dining room with a table/chair and more for me to work at, Dear Hubby did a full week of Teli-work, he had already booked friday off so it was a short week but this allowed him to give me a helping hand as we sorted things out.
Thankfully i can still find smaller projects to keep me busy and allow me to use my grey matter and my good hand and foot lol Seed starting, willow carving, writing and much more is on the go.
Lots of things going on in the background, we are in the waiting game to find out if DH’s job will be effected by reductions taking place or not, we have been though this before, its nerve racking to say the least and i know so many are on the same pins an needles.
This is a good year to make sure that the farm gives back as much as possible in terms of both savings and earnings. Last years drought was brutal and we will wait to see how many of the spring planted in 2025 will be alive this spring.
I have not decided yet if i am going to let any of my current hens sit this year, i was planning on adding in meat chicks this spring but i am thinking that it might need to be a fall raising. I will have lots of ducklings as i added in four new duck hens for a total of seven hens and two drakes for the duck breeding flock, with those numbers i will have both lots to raise and lots of sell if wanted!
This year is going to be a grow and put up two years on a few things that are quite low in the canning pantry, an its also a clear the jars year, if its over 3 years in age and we are not eating it, then i will use it as fodder or compost and get my jar back into use, filled with what we do in fact eat!
It will be a lean year in terms of out sourced imputes plants/fruit tree wise, it will be a production year in terms of wild fruits and foraged items added in, plus bird line nursery starts, more on that later.
What’s new in your world? Did you keep up on the global news? Local news? Stayed away from the news? Are you in the now or are you planning and plotting? Are you worried about your job? While you be looking for more ways to lower costs by using your farm/homestead/garden? Looking to try and find a way to earn a little as well? What is your plan on that?
“Most green lacewings have golden or copper eyes and are found on foliage. They are poor, erratic flyers and strongly attracted to light. Some 25 species occur in Canada, the most common of which are the common green (Chrysoperla carnea) and the goldeneyed (Chrysopa oculata), found in all provinces and territories except Nunavut.”
Tiny, bad flyers and o so fragile wings and for most folks unnoticed, their larvae, however, are entirely different beasts, being voracious predators, and are often nicknamed ‘Antlions’ or ‘Aphid-lions’ pertaining to their ferocious behavior and enormous appetite for Aphids and other small invertebrates.
We want these in our organic gardens, the green are most likely to be in our gardens, with the brown more likely in the food forests or more naturalized areas
3 Top Reason’s to want these amazing friends and their offspring in your gardens and yards, no matter where you live! Big or small, they are worth giving them what they need to increase their numbers.
1 – Rapid Reproduction Each female will lay several hundred eggs, each lacewing larve can eat up to 200 pests before it is ready to move on to the next stage, they are a powerhouse indeed! The females overwinter in leaf cover and come out for the first of TWO hatches per year. This means you do not need many females to successfully overwinter in order to rapidly build a army of larve, and its timing works with out Zone 5a timing for second fall planting timing.
2- Eco= Friendly Pest Control, by hosting and providing what they need, they will help you in your organic battle protecting your plants, soil and more
3-Adults offer Pollination ability’s adult lacewings visit flowers for nectar and pollen, contributing to the pollination process as they move from bloom to bloom. We are very lucky indeed that many of our favorite’s are theirs as well
Added Bonus, they are so fun to try for good Macro Photography on!
Now you might be wondering, why is she posting about these guys now?
Why because we are starting flowers from seed and we are planning our gardens right now!
Adult lacewings don’t eat pests; they need nectar and pollen to survive and reproduce. By planting specific flowers, you’re essentially laying out a buffet that says, “Welcome, make yourself at home!”
Look for plants with small, open flowers that make nectar and pollen easily accessible. Here are some top picks:
In the garden itself
Dill and Fennel, they are magnets for so many beneficial types including all types of lacewings, their flat topped style of flowers are perfect landing pads and amazing spots to try for that macro photography!
In the flower beds or garden edges look to Cosmos and Angelica, again anything is open single flowering type will work, the truth is for most things if you can avoid double blooms its best, they are bred to be showy for us, but not great feeders for pretty much anything
For both a mix of native and flower beds, look to the ASTERS, these are idea in gardens, flower beds and meadows/food forests, they can get huge! Check out that amazing wild grown aster plant in my park garden, it was covered in small native bees and so much more! (Farmgal Photography is for hire both locally and i will travel for the right project!)
Providing Shelter and Water
Beyond food, lacewings need places to rest, hide from predators, and find water, especially during hot, dry spells.
Think about creating a layered habitat.
Ideally leave some taller grasses and shrubs, in the flower bed, perhaps a lovely clump of grass to add texture will also serve well in this way, for the garden, well placed fruit bushes on edges will work very well. Shallow pans of pebbled water left out tucked under a bush or near good feeding stations will help keep them in your desired areas in those hot summer days.
Winter time, they need leaf litter to successfully overwinter and that also means no early clean up in the spring, so if you know you are going to clean up a certain area due to it being a early spring micro zone, don’t leave leaf litter there, have a spot near the garden that you leave it for them to find and spend the winter in that you know you can let it be.
What is your most common Lacewing in your personal neck of the woods? Have you spotted them over the years? There are going to be a lot of new gardeners starting and lots of older gardeners expanding this year and years to come, a little planning for eco friendly, extreme low cost ways to help your garden thrive is well worth a tiny bit of planning on your part to invite and keep these guys around.
if you truly can’t find any, start looking for the adults and if need be carefully move a few of them to your garden area giving them all they need, they will quickly settle in and become fast friends!
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