Friday, June 30, 2017

NEW Book: Beginning Again in a Foreign Land


My latest contribution to the world, both large and small is the publication of my book of interviews with twenty courageous, single women who have moved home to Mexico on their own, an inspirational and daring move. In the second half of their lives, they uprooted themselves from the USA, Canada, and England to begin again in a foreign land.


  Please read my book if you like strong women, decisive action, and Mexico! It is full of experiential advise and clues on how to survive the many challenges faced and conquered. It is available as a paperback on Amazon and also as a Kindle download. Soon to be sold at the Tecolete Book Store in Todos Santos and other stores around BCS.



SAVE THE TREES

On the homefront: 

     Here at the Tiny Tienda, home of "Wholesome Home and Garden", there has been a lot of activity to "SAVE THE TREES!" Quite literally, this area of Baja Sur as had massive infestations of damaging insects: white flies, spider mites, Cycad white scale, thripe, fungus and more.

   It has been an unusually cool spring with humid evenings and mornings, and more fog than in my previous years here. My endemic trees, palo zorrillo, palo escopeta, palo d'arco, seem to be the first notable victims. Lots of yellow leaves, yellow spots, and rust on the edge of leaves, spider webs on the flowering, fruiting ends of the mangos and plumbago.

     I asked Cathy Ann Hill, our local Gardening Guru with 35 years experience in Intregrated Pest Management, to come to my place and educate me as to what I was seeing. She was a tremendous help. I knew it was serious when my sego palm died and two old, big, beautiful hibiscus had to be taken out before they spread the insects. With Cathy's help I started on a treatment plan of spraying with organic insecticides. Cathy makes and sells some of these sprays. I also used very rich neem oil, cinnamon oil, and products with pyrethrum and spinosad. Even though they are organic, in the morning when I go out to spray, I cover myself amply because they are concentrated and sting my skin on contact.

     I've cut out invested branches of the palo d'arco, leaving my wood lot circle of them spare and no longer providing privacy from the neighbors. But they grow back quickly with their coppicing habit.

     Not big on killing sentient beings, I am simultaneously spraying with a kelp foliar feed product to beef up the plants' immune system. They love and respond so quickly to the minerals in the ocean vegetables. They know I love them... important in our close relationship. Hopefully my grand Monkey Pod tree will pull through this as the days and nights warm up.

   Cathy Ann Hill can be found on Facebook, and gardengguruinc@gmail.com and her website: www.newworldorganics.net  She has her products in stores and she sells in the farmer's markets in season.



Saturday, December 5, 2015

Casita Lala is Ready to Welcome Guests!


Casita Lala is very quiet, accommodating, and private with a double bed, and a counter kitchen with all you need for 'eating in'. 


There is Wi-Fi connection. Beach chairs and towels are provided along with a soft cooler bag.

If you want to observe some Permaculture techniques in action or have a private tour and learn more about what you see in this oasis, that can be arranged. Or enjoy the many opportunities that Todos Santos has to share with visitors in the winter season.


A bit of Feng Shui magic by the bed to insure harmony and loving energy. A heart on the Relationship wall facing a metal star with mirror opposite in the Fire/Light zone.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Last Chance to Transplant before Summer

Now is the time to think about trees for beautiful and essential shade around your house and garden!

In stock (2-4 feet high) are:
Flowering  Tabachin

- Royal Poinsiana, known locally as Tabachin, the showiest of all the tropicals.


- Caoba, a tropical hardwood with a full canopy.

- Guanabana, a Soursop fruit bearing tree. Anti Cancer Fruit!


-  Jacaranda, a true tropical that will amaze you when the heat strikes and the tree flourishes.

- Cassia, the shade tree must used by the Mexicans for dense shade, hardy and drought resistant.

- Ironwood, or Palo Fiero, an endemic that grows slowly but can live on very little water.


Call for directions and hours.  612-119-4098
In Las Tunas, 2 miles from town, one block east of the Playitas Rd.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Wednesday at Que Rico - Spring Plants!


Thanks to all who dropped by Que Rico on Wednesdays!

Will continue to be there the next three weeks, until May...

Lavendar, Sage, Rosemary, Mint, Eggplant starts, Surinam Cherry (red or black fruit), Guanabana, Moringa, African tulip tree, Guatamote tree, Palo Eva, desert succulents, varieties of aloe and agave. Please stop by!




Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Art and Music Valentine's Day Event!



ART, MUSIC AND PLANT SALE 
Valentine FIESTA!
FEB 14, 2015   5pm on ...

Fine Art Print in Gold Frame


The Tiny Tienda in Todos Santos
Designer clothes, Fine Art, Notecards, Jewellery 
and Special Household Goods. Specialty items and
Plant Nursery.

Moonstone : moonstonenow@yahoo.com

Directions:  
 Las Tunas, north of Todos Santos. Drive north on Las Playitas Road. After the store Mercado El Sol II , drive another 1/4 mile and look for a small sign directing you to the right. (There is Mini Super Juanita on the left just before calle Mangos.) Follow the sign at the end of the first block. The site is on the right corner. Welcome!



Wednesday, July 9, 2014

News and Updates- Summer 2014



The Tiny Tienda is closed for the season.
We are available for consultations,
Permaculture and chat with cool lemonade however! 
Please call first.