This is my first stab at doing a master plan for the yard. The back yard plan is definitely longer term, but the front yard is something I could start on sooner. Really interesting exercise – I’m glad it’s not locked in stone, because I’m sure I’ll change it, but it did help me put […]

I bit the bullet and did a Johnny’s order this year. The one thing I don’t like about Johnny’s is that they’re not really in it for the home growers, so their shipping costs are much more expensive than most other seed companies. I ultimately don’t mind paying them, because they’re a wonderful, local to

I’m doing an online garden design class – I decided I wanted to approach this new garden a little more planfully since I have so much more room than I’ve ever had before to deal with. The pictures above are the first substantial home work – doing a detailed plan of the plot. I ended

The last couple of weekends have been about putting the garden to bed for the season. The rain barrels are down, and the trellis has been stowed behind the shed. The shed itself is looking neater inside than it has in months. On Thanksgiving morning, after a walk at Two Lights, my mother and I

We got our first real frost on Tuesday night, and all the leaves on the front maple dropped the following morning. The above is the before picture. (You can see the slight furrow where the BF tried out the mulching function on our mower and decided that was a big, fat nope.) So while we

So while we were away in the Cape last weekend, this happened. We got home with just enough light last Sunday for me to be able to see that the zinnias and dahlias look like they came out on the worse end of a fight. (My mother, who’s on the coast, has not actually had

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,