I’m in a weird kind of holding pattern with the garden at the moment.   One issue is that Memorial Day (one of our planting benchmarks) is on the early side this year, which had not lined up very well with my other benchmark – blooming iris.     I actually do have one blooming, […]

Garden clean up continues.    This time, it was the annoying variegated bush in the front yard.   Notice how it’s poking through a hole in the shutter?    Well, it’s under much better control now. It’s really amazing what a week of 70 degree weather will do.   I left for Florida on Sunday.

The daffodils are fully out.   It is Spring! So here’s the status of the seed starts.   I have two kale.    The beets are so bad.   Swiss chard is a bit of a bust.   I’m going to have to thin the carrots and sorrel.    The cilantro and nasturtiums were a

My yard is so close to being snow free!!     So last weekend, my big project was to prune out the poor, winter blasted hollies.    You can see all the sticks I got out, and the final result above.     This week, I invested in some holly food, and also mulched them

So in the depths of February, in the worst of the cold, I got a Burpee’s enewsletter with free seed shipping.   You can imagine what happened next.    I mean, I pretty much had SAD at that point. I’ve not done seed starting before because of space considerations, and what light I have available.

In my final gardening act of the year, I spent all morning yesterday raking out the back yard.    I had done a little prep two weeks ago when I cleaned out the driveway and back staircase area and started a pile in the back yard, but I don’t think I’ve ever done all my bagging

This is what I’m currently dealing with in the yard, and all the leaves aren’t even down yet.    I had a random day off today, so spent the time to get most of the rest of the garden to bed (the herb pots are still ok for the moment), and to at least get the

Today, the above, became the below. The yellow one was still blooming, but it’s to the point now where barely any of them were ripening, and the weather’s not getting any warmer.    We have plans for next weekend, so I wouldn’t have been able to take care of it then, not to mention next weekend

So, it’s the middle of October.   It’s been close to 70 degrees almost every day this week.   I’m currently sitting here in short sleeves, and no socks, with all the windows open.    Oh, and we’re in the middle of a thunder storm. Needless to say, it’s been a weird Fall.    I mean, I like

And this was last week.     The yellow cherry is still happily blooming away. That one has taken a marked blightly turn this week (the red’s been blighty for a while), but we’re not seeing any frosts in the forecast, so no reason to think they won’t keep producing merrily away. It’s just wrong, I tell