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

The contents of the shrubbery next to the driveway became a little clearer over the course of the week. There are at least three distinct chokecherries, and today revealed a dogwood of the Swida persuasion. The cherries will be easy to keep – they’re in pretty distinct chunks. I’m not so sure about the dogwood

So I was in one of my forums and someone mentioned the end of season dahlia sale at Longwood Garden. I was bad. That’s 18 tubers above. I did give two to the my mother, but the rest are now in pots. The big pots above are the dahlias. I also moved most of the

This has been my project for several afternoons when it’s been nice after work – a corral for the leaf pile. I had to actually get it together, which I did around the larger left pile we had in the back corner, and then shift the rest of the pile into it, and close it

It was nice after work on Thursday, so I went out at the end of my workday to tackle the shrubbery beside of driveway. (I started out working on my leaf corral, but the pile was too wet to completely move, so that’s only about half way done.) This little section is overrun with multiflora