Category: Products

  • Gardener, Entrepreneur

    Those two words in the title seem complementary. They capture what I am trying to do. Why can’t I merge them nicely?  Gardenentrepreneur or a gardeneur or a gardeur. I kind of like gardeur. It also sort of sounds like ‘gar doer’. As in ‘I do a lot of gar.’ What about entreprdener?  Hum, ‘prd’ in a…

  • Copying my WordPress blog to my own computer

    My previous post regarding moving a WordPress site may have been both vague and abstract.  Here are some more coherent steps.  These are not a tutorial but more of a documentation for myself and any others who might be trying to understand how the internet works.   Have a SQL database for WordPress on both…

  • Julia Child can’t cook

    I am certain I heard somewhere that Julia Child actually wasn’t a great cook. My point is not to defame Mrs. Child, but instead to free myself from expectation.  She is synonymous with cooking and maybe wasn’t that great of a cook. So perhaps even with my brown tinged green thumb and one fingered typing…

  • Anytime you go anywhere it is good to have a localhost

    It makes sense to have a copy of my website on my local computer so I can test stuff out. Wow. Creating a local copy of the WordPress site was, and continues to be, not that simple. Here is my conceptual thought cloud list on how to get your WordPress website in two places. Have…

  • Introducing: Wilson

    It seems to me that E.O. Wilson needs no introduction. But, when I mentioned him to my husband, my husband said, “Who?” E.O. Wilson is a giant of modern biology. Read his books! Look at his website. Read Wikipedia. He is famous and brilliant and got his start studying the Fire Ant. As we each…

  • Um, World, didn’t you hear me say hello?

      I have been a blogger for a few weeks now. But the world doesn’t know yet – no one has visited my site.  So I must SEO. Search Engine Optimize.  Or something like that.  Keywords, categories, and tags will be my friends. Links will also be important and so I am upping my game.…

  • Diatoms Bother Ants

      Diatoms and Ants Movie   Do Diatoms kill ants? I can say without a doubt that it alters their behavior. Can you see the balls of ants in the video clip above from ant pile 4? This is how fire ants respond when stressed. It is most commonly documented when a very large number…

  • DIATOMS – How did you hear about them?

      DIATOMS, what are you?  What do you do?  There is a scrap of information that flows among the like-minded folks of the south.  That scrap of information is; use DIATOMS on ant piles.  The information is usually revealed in the following way:   New Southerner: “Oh my, we don’t have these Fire Ants where I…

  • E-commerce Journey

    Start at the beginning This isn’t just a gardening blog.   Well maybe someday it will be just about gardening. But today I will share a bit about my journey into understanding the internet and E-commerce.    This is what I know today regarding E-commerce : open safari, or Firefox, or chrome, type ‘google.com‘, type what…