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 […]
This trilogy is an interesting take on Pride and Prejudice. It’s really only the first book that follows Austen’s story. For the next two, the story is just about how those characters act in this fantasy world. What I find interesting is how many people complained because it went dark. I’ll be honest – I
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This is the final book of the The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, which is about the daughters of several different Victorian era villains – Jekyll and Hyde (they each have a daughter), Dr. Moreau, Frankenstein, and others. In this book, we also get an ancient Egyptian queen, and Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty
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So this happened. I could have sworn I checked well enough for twisting when I cast on the middle stitching, but I think the back was actually twisted, so when I went to join the front and back, well. There you go. So I’ve put this to the side before I tink it back, in
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
Another cozy story. After the events of the first book, Miyara is suddenly required to win a tea contest to cement her status as tea master. And her sister (still a princess) has tracked her down, and isn’t convinced the Miyara shouldn’t still be a princess herself. This story ends up being about Miyara becoming
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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
This series is a wild ride. The last book has one of the least reliable narrators ever, that more or less resolves itself by the end of that particular part of the story. So leading into this book, you feel like you should know what’s going on, except it gets less and less clear as
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(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.