And this was last week.     The yellow cherry is still happily blooming away. That one has taken a marked blightly turn this week (the red’s been blighty for a while), but we’re not seeing any frosts in the forecast, so no reason to think they won’t keep producing merrily away. It’s just wrong, I tell […]

I did a little clean up yesterday, which mostly involved pulling out the basil.     It’s been warm enough that most things are still going strong, but the basil was definitely looking worse for the wear. The cherry tomatoes are still producing.   We had a near frost last week (most of the state frosted, but we

It’s that time of year where things are producing nicely (seriously, my cherry tomatoes are still trying to take over the world), but things don’t necessarily look so great any more.    I pulled up SO much crab grass this morning. I also spent some quality time with the climbing rose and pulled out all the

Why yes, those are six foot steel fence poles we had to sink into the ground and truss up like a Christmas ham to keep the crazy mutant cherry tomatoes from tipping over and colonizing the driveway…

I don’t know what’s up with my tomatoes this year.    My mother was just telling me how hers were pretty slow this year.   Meanwhile, I’ve had to add a second tier to the cages to contain mine, and I pulled out the Swiss chard from between them because it was getting too shaded out (bearing

So something dug up my Sedona coleus.    The one I buy every year because it’s such a cool orange color.    So I ended up repotting the red one in a slightly smaller pot.  I suppose if I had to lose one, the Sedona was the better one to lose – I do have

A little harvest from the garden.    A little disappointing, since I overplanted an entire window box.   I guess I need to give up on that seed packet…

On the plus side, I did have enough mulch to cover the areas that needed it the most.    I was a little bad this year, and did something I’d never done before: cut back the daffodil foliage before it completely died back.   Since they had their best ever Spring after the winter of doom for

I finally figured out what was bugging me about the garden, last night.     Despite the fact that it’s a week after Memorial Day, and I always do my planting on Memorial Day (but skipped this year because we went to VT, and it was so freaking cold!), the iris are still not blooming.    But, they’re

Well, here’s what’s survived in the back yard.   I officially gave up on the heucheras today, as well as the lavender and lemon thyme from the side yard. It’s definitely been a weird Spring, seeing what is coming back. The climbing rose survived, but most of the top is dead.     That’s probably ultimately a good