2013 LANDIS VALLEY HERB & GARDEN FAIRE

2013 Landis Valley Herb & Garden Faire

Its that time again.  The Landis Valley Herb & Garden Faire.   Design By Nature will be a vendor.  Look for our Booth. 


Dates Of Event: Friday and Saturday, May 10-11
Times of Event: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM A great event for both gardeners and non-gardeners! Enjoy strolling the grounds, shopping the stands of 80+ vendors of herbs,perennials, annuals,natives, vegetables - including lots of heirloom tomatoes, and garden art.

Get great garden advice from the experts!

On Friday, May 10th, we welcome Pat Brodowski,Vegetable Gardener at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On Saturday, May 11th, we welcome back Mike McGrath, host of the nationally syndicated Public Radio show, You Bet Your Garden.

Please check WWW.LANDISVALLEYHERBFAIRE.ORG for more in-depth speaker information, our vendor list, images, and more!

Cost for Event: $10
Contact Person: Visitor Center
Contact Phone: 717-569-0401

Edible Container Gardening Resource

Edible Container Gardening Resources

It’s been slow on the posting front, as I’ve had the winter blues but  have become more inspired as the weather begins to warm up.  

I’ve been serfing the web for great container gardening-related resources, and thought I’d share some of the great sites I have found with you.

Here are the websites Ive come across so far.    

Vegetables

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8105.html.

The following website provides a 

Great list of specific vegetable varieties well-suited for container gardening.

http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/vegetable/container.html.  This website 

has a good chart (scroll to bottom) showing the minimum container sizes for various vegetables.


I will post more sites as I come across them. 


Happy Gardening
Aida

THE BENEFITS OF GROWING YOUR OWN VEGETABLES.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COMPOST BIN I HAVE EVER SEEN

I have been in search of a compost bin for some time now and found this beautiful one on the web.  I'm inspired to recreate this in my own backyard.   


The plans for making this is posted by Seattle Tilth at http://seattletilth.org/learn/resources-1/compost/woodwire3bin.pdf/view?searchterm=compost        

MY SUNDAY AFTERNOON

The weather was amazing today.  Took advantage of the day by 

creating flower baskets and re-potting  plants.

                               
                                Just finished making Mother's Day Baskets for this Saturdays event.

                                       

                                      Re-planting tomatoes while enjoying a cup of Starbucks coffee. 
                  Here's an   interesting fact-did you know tomatoes were once thought to be poisonous. 

FIELDS OF AJI DULCE

Last years harvest of Aji Dulce Peppers-a sweet pepper similiar to the size and shape of a habenero pepper but without the heat.  This pepper is an important ingredient in the making of sofrito.  Please visit my blog  entitled "My Sofrito Recipe" to make your own sofrito and also visit my website at www.designbynaturenursery.com to purchase these wonderful plants.     

HOW TO BUILD A WATTLE FENCE (DIY)

Wattle fence technique is a quick and affordable (free) way to build fencing.  It's easy to make and beautiful for any garden.    They are traditionally made of willow branches.   If you cannot find willow then any type of branch that you can bend slightly and weave can be used.  

I love wattle fences because it adds an element of natural beauty to my garden and gives it a medieval feel.   The first time I saw this technique being used was at a community garden in my city park.  The person gathered branches of similar sizes and weaved them into a work of art.  It protected their vegetable garden from the deer and rabbits that roamed freely at the park expecially at night.  

Below are a few examples of different types of wattle fencing.  I am also attaching a link that provides intructions on how to build one yourself.

  

http://www.alaskabg.org/Education-Learn/HowTo/WattleFence.pdf