In my final gardening act of the year, I spent all morning yesterday raking out the back yard.    I had done a little prep two weeks ago when I cleaned out the driveway and back staircase area and started a pile in the back yard, but I don’t think I’ve ever done all my bagging […]

This is what I’m currently dealing with in the yard, and all the leaves aren’t even down yet.    I had a random day off today, so spent the time to get most of the rest of the garden to bed (the herb pots are still ok for the moment), and to at least get the

Today, the above, became the below. The yellow one was still blooming, but it’s to the point now where barely any of them were ripening, and the weather’s not getting any warmer.    We have plans for next weekend, so I wouldn’t have been able to take care of it then, not to mention next weekend

So, it’s the middle of October.   It’s been close to 70 degrees almost every day this week.   I’m currently sitting here in short sleeves, and no socks, with all the windows open.    Oh, and we’re in the middle of a thunder storm. Needless to say, it’s been a weird Fall.    I mean, I like

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