Children enjoy watching seeds grow. If it isn’t warm enough to plant outdoors yet, plant seeds indoors in trays for transplanting later. Homegrown plants usually perform as well as or better than greenhouse plants. So what shall we plant? Some easy flowers to plant from seed are sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias, and marigolds to name a few. Or perhaps you might prefer to grow vegetables like beans, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and melons. If you like to watch butterflies, plant some parsley with
I received a phone call from a neighbor today who was upset about the number of “bees” that were swarming all over her cedar tree. When I went to see the “bees” I discovered that they were not bees but they were yellowjackets, and they were all over her cedar tree foraging for the sweetness in the sap of the tree. There is a distinct difference between honeybees and yellowjackets. Honeybees are fuzzy and their color is usually orange and brown and