I’ve very behind with posting – weekends have been full of the kind of life stuff I don’t tend to document here. But the garden has marched on. We had a killing frost overnight on the 17th – the results are above. We’d actually had a lighter frost a few days before that that everything […]

For the moment, the garden is still fully alive. The last dahlia has finally bloomed, and everything looks pretty happy, although the deck garden is looking a little sparse with the tomato gone. This will likely change starting tomorrow – regular October weather, ie daily temps topping out maybe near 60, and the possibility of

The garden is puttering along. I’ve had to pull out all but one of the zucchini, and the cucumber as well. But the flowers are doing nicely – the fourth dahlia is set to bloom. That leaves two that haven’t set buds yet, and the new one from this year (the pot on the bottom

It occurs to me I haven’t been posting much about the garden. It’s been chugging along, mostly. Because of the heat, I actually haven’t been faced with a glut of zucchini. About half the dahlias are now blooming, which is ahead of schedule from last year, but you can tell from the foliage that they

I ended up doing most of my planting over my lunch breaks in early June. These pictures are from June 12, when I was finally done. I’m still trying to find the time to get the greenhouse broken down and put away, but at least all the plants are in the ground.

I can’t win with hardening off. Turns out this weekend would have been great for planting, but it was so cool, I hadn’t put things outside yet. (Plus we were going away, so it just seemed safer to wait for next weekend.) I did pivot soon enough to get the Swiss chard outside, and I

Tis the season for wandering around garden centers. I took Friday off to do my traditional wander around Mackworth/Gilsland (trout lilies were sadly gone by, but as you can see from previous entries, it was still a great walk). I went to Broadway Gardens that afternoon, which was only a touch below crazy weekend levels

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

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

I’ve actually done two rounds of planting since I last checked in – all of the surviving seedlings are now in larger pots. I need to do something about my marigold starts. I’m not having good luck in the pods. I may try those in larger flats next year, and prick them out into these