Back garden

Garden Notes

Vegetable planting is done. (Other than one delicata squash I need to harden off. One set didn’t sprout in the initial batch, so I replanted.) There will be a little more flower action, but the backyard is pretty much done for now. Just in time for the heat.

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Back garden

Garden Notes

I’ve been plugging away with gardening tasks after work this past week. I laid out a second bed, which is going to be for herbs and pollinators. (Eventually, this will be all one long bed, but baby steps to that.) And then, I’m rather ridiculously proud that I set this up all by myself. The

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Qana hat

Knitting Notes

These are the hexipuffs I got out of the Knitpicks Palette yarn – I am now officially depleted of those extras. (Don’t have a problem with the yarn, I just had a lot of it in incomplete amounts. My stash page in Ravelry looks noticeably shorter now.) In the spirit of using more stash –

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Chokecherries

Garden Notes

The contents of the shrubbery next to the driveway became a little clearer over the course of the week. There are at least three distinct chokecherries, and today revealed a dogwood of the Swida persuasion. The cherries will be easy to keep – they’re in pretty distinct chunks. I’m not so sure about the dogwood

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