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

I finished up the last of the neatening I needed to do in the garden this morning – nothing particularly photogenic – like fixing a broken trellis. I also brought all the houseplants out for the summer.     We got some gnats over the winter (I think they came in when I repotted a

I have one solitary iris (though you can see behind this one that the Siberian iris are poised to go crazy any second now), so it’s officially time to plant. The above is the before shot, when I headed out at about 8:30 this morning- well before the heat of the day (it was about

Last weekend, we did some much needed deep cleaning, so I’m fairly late posting these pictures.    Because we were going away this weekend, I went ahead and bought tomatoes a week early, and because the forecast looked good, just went ahead and planted them that day, with the Swiss Chard and kale.   The

So instead of pet sitting, for my trip, I required seedling sitting.   My chard and kale went over to my mother’s house, and came back with friends.    That, and my chard must have quadrupled in size. So I now have chard, kale, basil, shishito peppers, yellow cauliflower and marigolds.   The chard and

They’re looking a little beat up, but the daffodils are blooming. I’ve also taken the pots out of the garage today.    Surprisingly, only one of the hostas is sprouting up.     The pots are pretty dry, so I’m not sure if that’s the reason.    We’ll see what a little sun and some