The garden is puttering along. I’ve had to pull out all but one of the zucchini, and the cucumber as well. But the flowers are doing nicely – the fourth dahlia is set to bloom. That leaves two that haven’t set buds yet, and the new one from this year (the pot on the bottom […]

It occurs to me I haven’t been posting much about the garden. It’s been chugging along, mostly. Because of the heat, I actually haven’t been faced with a glut of zucchini. About half the dahlias are now blooming, which is ahead of schedule from last year, but you can tell from the foliage that they

I ended up doing most of my planting over my lunch breaks in early June. These pictures are from June 12, when I was finally done. I’m still trying to find the time to get the greenhouse broken down and put away, but at least all the plants are in the ground.

I can’t win with hardening off. Turns out this weekend would have been great for planting, but it was so cool, I hadn’t put things outside yet. (Plus we were going away, so it just seemed safer to wait for next weekend.) I did pivot soon enough to get the Swiss chard outside, and I

Tis the season for wandering around garden centers. I took Friday off to do my traditional wander around Mackworth/Gilsland (trout lilies were sadly gone by, but as you can see from previous entries, it was still a great walk). I went to Broadway Gardens that afternoon, which was only a touch below crazy weekend levels

It worked! As of Thursday, all of the tubers I over wintered in the garage had visible sprouts! I do have to acknowledge that this was a very mild winter. I came across a post online with people are far north as Minnesota noting that they have dahlia sprouts in their gardens from leftover tubers

I have finally finished moving the old compost pile away from the fence to the new pile. It helped that the remains shrunk quite a bit over the winter, so I was able to knock the rest out in about 45 minutes in the hour and a half between when I get done with work

I’ve actually done two rounds of planting since I last checked in – all of the surviving seedlings are now in larger pots. I need to do something about my marigold starts. I’m not having good luck in the pods. I may try those in larger flats next year, and prick them out into these

The dahlia over-wintering experiment continues. I’d like to be able to plant them right into the large pots I use, since I managed to kill one transplanting them up last year. But, I really do need to start them sooner rather than later to get them to a good size. So we’ll see if this

(I am massively behind on my April entries…) I did my first round of planting up seedlings on the 17th. This is the dahlias and eggplant.