Category: Gardening

I learned something about oysters this weekend. In an experiment designed to test durability of aquaculture equipment, some stray oysters attached to the outside of a plastic mesh. I noticed that all of the oysters adopted a mesh pattern on their top side even though that was not touching the plastic mesh. Similarly, I’ve noticed…

  Horn Point Labs in MD is clearly the east coast leaders in oyster restoration. This approach would also be effective for New Jersey but current politics to protect the status quo in the oyster industry rather than allow restoration prevent the development of a similar facility here. Smaller hatcheries, including my own, have been successful in gthe Delaware Bay…

My tomato garden faced unprecedented hardships this year. We had multiple salt water floods throughout the month of July and then last weekend a strong wind lifted our camper into the air and dropped it on its side right on top of the garden!

After squirrels ate all of my flower bulbs for the past two years, I made these wire screens from wire lath mesh sold at building supply stores. Each piece of mesh was cut to fit each planter. After it was in place I covered it with a thin layer of soil. It worked!   .