So it turns out the secret to not impulse buying half the garden center at a 75% off perennial sale is to not get a cart. It also helps that we had Friday off, so got in before the hoards. (We had Friday off because we were supposed to go to the third rescheduling of […]

So it’s October, and I still have dahlias. At this point, I’m just enjoying them while they last. They’re the only thing I’m still watering. I’m starting to wonder if they’ll last until November…

I pulled this out of the garden on Monday. It’s the large tomato plant, the remaining pumpkin, two delicata squash, and most of the gem marigolds, which I didn’t set out to pull, but accidently came up with little effort. I’m mostly down to the herbs and flowers now – we’re on death watch for

This is the front bed we inherited – the rather lackluster Stella d’Oro daylilies in the back came it, as well as the mum to the right, and a pink clary sage to the left. We ended up throwing together a red, yellow and blue theme for it, and considering how poor the soil is,

I realized I haven’t posted much about the garden lately. It’s been going nicely. The tomatoes have been doing well – we’ve got a bunch of the brandywine cross, and per usual, there are more cherry tomatoes than I know what to do with. I have a fair number of delicata squash hanging out on

The garden is coming along nicely – I have buds on two of the larger dahlias, and I found myself out in the remnants of a tropical storm hand pollinating the first female pumpkin flower because there was actually a male open, and I wanted to make sure it was pollinated. (I’ve also removed my

Hit my first definite nope in the shrubbery beside the driveway. This is privet, which is non native, and therefore not something I’ll keep. So after work on Thursday, I pulled out all the privet and the rest of what I could get of the multiflora rose. That does still leave the maple sapling in

This is as complete as this garden should be for a while – I’ve planted all the remaining seedlings, and am not missing anything I wanted to get. Here’s the herb garden, and the insane dahlia experiment. The herb garden will not be as big as I planned. I just didn’t get the bed laid

Vegetable planting is done. (Other than one delicata squash I need to harden off. One set didn’t sprout in the initial batch, so I replanted.) There will be a little more flower action, but the backyard is pretty much done for now. Just in time for the heat.

I’ve been plugging away with gardening tasks after work this past week. I laid out a second bed, which is going to be for herbs and pollinators. (Eventually, this will be all one long bed, but baby steps to that.) And then, I’m rather ridiculously proud that I set this up all by myself. The