My Grammie begonia is blooming! We call it the Grammie begonia because the myriad versions of it spread out between my father, mother and I all came from a single cutting my grandmother gifted to my father back when I was wee, and my parents were still married. It’s a foliage begonia (I think it’s […]
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Here’s this year’s batch of seeds. I was really very good – I wanted to buy like three times that many, but I resisted. We’ll see how well that goes next year, once I get a better handle on what I’m dealing with with the new yard…
So we had around 18 inches of snow the week before Christmas that managed to evaporate overnight on Christmas Eve. Since I had some time off around the holidays, once things dried out a bit, I spent some time in the backyard. I wanted to get some measurements of where things stand. I’m planning on
This is the maple tree in our front yard. I have a lovely view of it from my office window. The leaves on the ground have been mocking me since we moved in. They fell too late for the former owners to take care of, but until today, it’s either been wet or dark when
The community garden summer bed is officially put to bed – I’ve signed off on removing everything except the winter greens. Those are still looking pretty good, though it got into the 20s last night, so not sure what the chard looks like this morning.
I pulled the peppers and tomatoes out today. We’ve had frost locally, but the driveway is such a sheltered micro climate that it hasn’t touched those yet. So they’ve still been ripening, even if the plants aren’t looking the best because they have been feeling the cold. We’ve got something in the works that is
My mother had a bumper crop of raspberries earlier this summer. She had so many I told her I’d take as many as she could freeze for me. I knew I wouldn’t be able to do anything with them then, but figured September would probably be better. And I managed jam. The smell was heavenly.
The garden’s definitely on the wane. I pulled out the cucumbers yesterday – they were not looking good. I will say, they were fantastically prolific. One vine would have been plenty for us. I left the peppers and tomatoes. There are a few more fruits on there that still might ripen. We haven’t actually had
The community garden bed is greening up. We’ve had flea beetle over there pretty bad. I’ve gone through way more kale than I should have, and the broccoli greens and broccoli are toast. It hasn’t touched the Swiss chard (had the first harvest yesterday), but any of the runner beans I put directly
This spring has not been kind to the community garden plot. Right after I planted out most of the seedlings, the temperatures yoyo-ed a bit, and then it decided to stop raining. I lost the marigolds and dahlias I put over there, as well as the broccoli and broccoli greens. The two kales
