And so it begins… Here are this year’s seeds. I have some leftover Tuscan kale I’ll try to use one last time this year, as well. Definitely more flowers this year. I saw calendula mixed in with Tuscan kale in the Kitchen Garden at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden last summer, and having […]
It’s safe to say this is the final harvest of the season. After doing nothing all summer (probably due to the lack of rain), I finally have some shiitake mushrooms from the mushroom log. I also cleaned out the kale and Swiss chard so I could bring in those pots. And after looking terrible all
After a rather impressive rain storm on Tuesday (probably mostly impressive because we’ve been in a drought), the last of the leaves are finally off the trees. Which translated to this. That stacked into this. And along with two bags with from the driveway, translated to another thirteen bags, bringing the total for the season
Well, that’s eight bags down. Did this this morning, before it started raining again. (And the bottom layer was definitely still wet.) But, at least I have the driveway and stairs temporarily cleared. This is what I have left. Note the amount still on the tree above…
The original plan was to at least start on the leaves in the yard this weekend. They’re not terrible yet, but they’ve definitely started. However, it rained heavily both Friday and Saturday, and I am not a glutton for punishment. So they’ve got a reprieve for at least a week. In other news, I found
With a frost advisory coming for the night, on Friday, I decided to pull down the tomatoes, peppers, and the cauliflower that went nowhere. The kale and nasturtiums still look good, so I’ll keep them around as long as they’re still sightly.
So the weather turned on a dime about a week ago. It got cool. And cloudy. Not a whole lot of actual rain, still. But the cool is weird. I feel like I usually transition to shorts vs. pants every other day for while, but I had a sudden day where pants were necessary, and
I’m going to start this post out with a shout out to my new car, because I could never have accomplished the above in one trip in the Little Old Man. That’s five bags of mulch, two bags of potting soil, and a new trash can to hold my compost deliveries through the winter.
I would like to be able to say that my garden has been puttering along nicely, now that we’re in July/August, and as you can see above, it has. I’ve even gotten my first harvest from the tomatoes and shishito peppers. But this is what it looked like until this morning. Have I mentioned
So there’s a little room above because I had to give up on the larger pot of cauliflower. I could never keep them moist, and they never grew past seedling stage. The pot that did survive is below, and you can see that it’s shaded a bit by the coreopsis. That
