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Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin - 8/12/10

Keep Your Garden for Yourself

Here’s a repellent that passes the Bay Gardener’s tests

Deer, racoons, groundhogs, rabbits and squirrels are a major problem in vegetable gardens and in landscapes. Many home gardeners have stopped growing hosta because the deer ravage their ornamental plantings. Groundhogs and racoons as well as deer invade the vegetable garden to feast on corn, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and beans. Rabbits love to feast on lettuce, cabbage and snap beans. In the 1980s, I developed what is known as hot sauce animal repellent, which is made from the waste of Tabasco...

Article - Osprey Saga by M.C. Koblos; by M.C. Koblos - 8/12/10

The Osprey Saga

Week 22: On the Go

Last Monday morning when I went out to look for Junior, he was not on the pier he was on the night before. He was on the roof of a boathouse two piers farther away from his nest. His mother was with him and having him flap his wings and run around the roof. He would get about six inches into the air, then settle back on the roof. Finally, she got him to fly, led him home to the nest platform and fed him. Next thing I knew, he was no longer with his mother. He was back on the pier where he spent...

Article - The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin; by Dr. Francis Gouin - 8/5/10

Local or Organic?

That’s a choice you have to make in buying cherries, peaches, plums and nectarines

Every year, I am asked if the peaches and nectarines that I sell are grown organically. The answer is no. We cannot grow stone fruit crops such as peaches, plums, nectarines and cherries without having to use both insecticides and fungicides. All of these crops are extremely susceptible to brown rot, rusts and insect damage from beetles, curculio, aphids, mites, stink bugs, borers, etc. At present there are no organic or biological controls for the insects that attack these crops. Many...

Article - Sky Watch by J. Alex Knoll; by J. Alex Knoll - 8/5/10

Heavenly Dust

Tiny particles add up to bright lights

The sun sets a few minutes after 8:00 this week, revealing a triumvirate of bright planets in its wake. Venus, Mars and Saturn continue their weeks-long dance above the western horizon. Over the next week, watch as Mars and Saturn jockey for position just above brilliant Venus. The three planets are their tightest on Saturday, all within five degrees of one another. As these three planets set in the west around 10pm, Jupiter rises in the east. With Venus gone and the waning crescent moon not...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle - 8/5/10

Fish FIght

This rockfish took me for a Chesapeake train ride

It had been way too many days since I had caught a rockfish, and I was ready. But late that afternoon, the light was beginning to fail, and my surface plug had gone untouched cast after cast. Fish Are Biting Live-liners are the biggest winners this summer, with consistent rockfish limits coming to anglers patiently fishing live spot deep (that means right on the bottom) around the channel edges, the Bay Bridge supports and the usual locations that draw schools of rockfish: Love Point,...

Article - Where We Live by Steve Carr; by Steve Carr - 8/5/10

Call It What You Will, We’re All Sweating

The big picture is warming up

Where are all the talk show hosts, conservative pundits, and global warming naysayers who were crowing incessantly this past winter when it was snowing like no tomorrow? Back in February, as we shoveled out from underneath one snowstorm after another, we heard all about how climate change was a left-wing lie. Ron Smith, the WBAL talk show host, poked fun at the ongoing weather crisis every day for months — ignoring the fact that when all was said and done, the winter of 2010 was one of...

Article - Osprey Saga by M.C. Koblos; by M.C. Koblos - 8/5/10

The Osprey Saga

Week 21: We Have Lift-Off!

Today, July 29, at approximately 11:09am, Junior took to the air. He was out there on the nest platform with his mother, doing his calisthenics. When I looked again, the platform was empty. I got my binoculars and went out on my pier, knowing he would be nearby. Sure enough, there he was, two piers east of mine, sitting in the middle of the end section of the pier, his mother swooping in and out over him … and landing and talking to him … and taking off, trying to get him airborne...

Article - Osprey Saga by M.C. Koblos; by M.C. Koblos - 8/5/10

The Osprey Saga

Week 21: We Have Lift-Off!

Today, July 29, at approximately 11:09am, Junior took to the air. He was out there on the nest platform with his mother, doing his calisthenics. When I looked again, the platform was empty. I got my binoculars and went out on my pier, knowing he would be nearby. Sure enough, there he was, two piers east of mine, sitting in the middle of the end section of the pier, his mother swooping in and out over him x and landing and talking to him ... and taking off, trying to get him airborne...

Article - Sporting Life by Dennis Doyle; by Dennis Doyle - 8/5/10

Fish Fight

This rockfish took me for a Chesapeake train ride

It had been way too many days since I had caught a rockfish, and I was ready. But late that afternoon, the light was beginning to fail, and my surface plug had gone untouched cast after cast. My hopes had been pinned on a rumor that there were good fish to be had around this remote pile of boulders. Now it looked like it was just not going to happen for me, again. Getting desperate, I changed my lure color. Perhaps in the dim, fading light of day, black would be a better choice....

Article - Where We Live by Steve Carr; by Steve Carr - 8/5/10

Call It What You Will, We’re All Sweating

The big picture is warming up

Regulars (All)

Keep Your Garden for Yourself

The Osprey Saga

Local or Organic?

Heavenly Dust

Fish FIght

Call It What You Will, We’re All Sweating

The Osprey Saga

The Osprey Saga

Fish Fight

Call It What You Will, We’re All Sweating

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