dahlia sprouts

Garden Notes

It worked! As of Thursday, all of the tubers I over wintered in the garage had visible sprouts! I do have to acknowledge that this was a very mild winter. I came across a post online with people are far north as Minnesota noting that they have dahlia sprouts in their gardens from leftover tubers

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Summer Fjord Sweater

Knitting Notes

So this happened. I could have sworn I checked well enough for twisting when I cast on the middle stitching, but I think the back was actually twisted, so when I went to join the front and back, well. There you go. So I’ve put this to the side before I tink it back, in

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Corner of Back Yard

Garden Notes

I have finally finished moving the old compost pile away from the fence to the new pile. It helped that the remains shrunk quite a bit over the winter, so I was able to knock the rest out in about 45 minutes in the hour and a half between when I get done with work

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