The Great Sunflower Project

Do you want to help in the effort to save the honeybees? Then you should join The Great Sunflower Project run by San Francisco State University. The project needs our help counting the honeybees that visit our gardens; as a thanks, you will receive free sunflower seeds for your garden.
At least 25 percent of our honeybees have died in what scientists have named, "Colony Collapse Disorder". Since honeybees pollinate many commercial crops, such as almonds, apples, berries, and melons, as well as help our own gardens, this is a very serious problem for Mother Nature.

I invite all my blogger friends to join me in this worthwhile project. Let's grow some sunflowers and count bees.

Hurricane season begins.

Yesterday was June 1st; the beginning of the 2007 hurricane season, for those of us who garden in Florida is always a stressful time. Did all the efforts that we put in the garden this past winter was all for nothing. Twice already I have seen my garden destroy by one of these storms and had to start from scratch.
Every year we go thru the same ritual, the news media goes bunkers over how we all need to prepare and not be complacent. The state of Florida has tax moratorium for two weeks on all storm prepare items and the talk of the town is (Are we going to get hit or not)
This year I am thinking of buying an electrical generator. The last hurricane that passed by here two years ago was Wilma as a category one, the damage was minimum but it did a number to the electrical grid. I was lucky I was without electricity only two days but neighbors two blocks away were out more than two weeks. I can handle been with out air conditioning but I need my refrigerator.
The beauty of gardening in Florida is that plants are so resilient and most of then come back even after getting whack by a hurricane. This weekend we already have a storm forming in the Gulf, it has a name Barry. Thanks god is not expected to get much bigger than a tropical storm. It is dumping a lot of needed rain in South Florida, so no gardening for me this weekend.

The sun flowers are beginning to bloom this week. I planted the seeds about two months ago, my first time planting Sun flowers; they are a good fillers for my tomatoes bed.