Got my first batch of seeds in yesterday. This is mainly notable for what was happening outside. We no longer have a lack of snow on the ground. In fact, after snowing all day yesterday, it turned to rain overnight, and we woke up with all this lovely ice this morning. I really hate this […]

So, first day of March, and the garden has no snow on it. (Could have said the same thing for the last day of February – we had rain on Wednesday that got rid of almost all the snow. What’s left is in very shady corners.) I have never made a secret of not being

I had full intentions of getting seaweed and spreading it over the garden with compost and then covering that with straw. But it continues to be wet at the times I would actually be able to go out and do anything. We may or may not be getting our first measurable snow tonight (the latest

Well, Fall definitely happened. We are no longer in the land of weirdly warm temps. I’ve been going out in my lunch hour and clearing out the back bed. The greens are still out, and I really need to de-strawberry everything, but I’m ready to get some seaweed, empty out the compost barrel, and straw

Here are the garden beds on Monday, before our first frost. Hilariously, not as much changed after that night as I’d have thought it should. The zinnias and zucchini were toast – I pulled those out in the middle of the week. What is shocking is that the dahlias are still alive. The foliage and

The last of this year’s dahlias has managed to bloom. In the third week of October. We’ll ignore the fact that by all rights, we should have had our first frost ages ago, and this plant would have been toast. This one was a happy surprise. It had come in a set – Lady Darlene

The tomatoes are gone. After the last blight removal chop, which was drastic, they just weren’t doing much. I decided to cut my losses. I also pulled the netting off the brassicas. At some point over the week, a hole developed. I have no idea how long it had been open. I managed to patch

The trellis down. It was already tipping, and I didn’t have time to take it down when we had a hurricane bearing down on us. Fortunately, the hurricane was more or less a bust in Southern Maine, but I took that as a sign, and just snipped all the bean stems this morning. I’ll let

Well, it’s September, and Mother Nature finally picked up on the fact that she didn’t torture us nearly enough with hot weather in August, so we got several days of humid 80s over the last week. I’ve pretty much given up any pretense of normalcy – I’m just rolling with whatever happens at this point.

Despite the fact that removing blighted leaves from the tomatoes seems to have become a full time job, I’m happy with where the garden is right now. The dahlias are finally out, and the tomatoes and zucchini are producing in a reasonable amount. (There are seven or eight tiny zucchini working since we got our