When I think back to this time last year, I already had peas in the ground. It’s been a little colder this year (you can see last remnants of a snow bank in the last picture above), but it’s finally starting to turn around, so I did some yard maintenance today. Last week (in the […]
My Grammie begonia (so named because the original slip came to us from my mother’s mother), is actually blooming. It’s a foliage begonia, and I’ve only had one bloom one other year for me (in the ten years I’ve had one in the house – this one is a slip of the older one that
I have been sadly remiss in my blog updates this month. Hurricane Sandy came through almost three weeks ago, and here are my pictures. We actually came through the storm well – there was some coastal flooding up here in Maine, but that was a given for certain locations the second they mentioned the words
So, in the last big rain storm, the clematis trellis managed to detach itself from the supports. (I’m still not entirely sure how – two of the four pieces of twine were still intact – on the trellis at least). Since it was threatening to smush half of my Swiss chard, I decided to cut
So I’m on vacation this week, but I’ll be posting pretty much nothing of any interest, because I managed to come down with a nasty head cold, and have spent most of the week on the couch, surgically attached to a kleenex box. One of the last things I did before lethargy completely claimed me
Yeah, I’ve been bad about recording the CSA this year. Last week (another bad picture week)’s haul was: basil, new potatoes, baby carrots (real ones!), lettuce, frisee, zucchini, peas and scallions. This week’s haul (above) was: peas, lettuce, new potatoes, tomatoes (yay!), zucchini and yellow zucchini, carrots, and scallions. I also had my first harvest
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I officially give up on growing cilantro. It always bolts within about a week of me getting it to a size I can actually think about using. And yes, it’s kind of pretty, and the bees like it, but I’m not getting any use out of this plant. So I guess it’s
Well, the iris are out, which means it’s plant whatever the heck else you need to time. I took Friday off so I could go to my favorite garden center (Broadway Gardens)- the haul from which is above. It was raining, so I foolishly thought it would be fairly empty. Ha! Granted, it was no
I actually did a bit of harvesting today – two huge radishes, and salad greens. The greens weren’t filling either pot, and I could use them for other things, so they came out today. Part of yesterday’s epic drive was stopping at a couple of garden centers that are further out of town then
