This was a pleasant sight a couple mornings ago. I planted these in Fall of 2021, nothing came up last Spring. I figured our heavy clay soil had gotten the better of them, so I was pleasantly surprised to see them one morning before work. I did my second round of seeds this morning, after […]
This is the time of year where it doesn’t seem like much is going on – you can definitely tell where the winter shady bits of the yard are, by the lingering snowpack. But I actually do have a few things going on – I did my first round of planting last week. (In the
It was in the 70s the weekend before last. So of course, I was away, and therefore had to put the garden to bed in 30’s November weather yesterday. I suppose it could have been worse – I did see the forecast, so avoided doing it today in the 20 degree wind chill and snow
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We have had frost the last two mornings, so today’s gardening was done in the afternoon, after things warmed up. (It’s gorgeous right now – we have all the south facing windows open to take advantage of the 60-degree temps.) The big thing for today – the trellis is down. This was mostly done so
Well, it happened. There was a frost last night. I spent a good chunk of time today pulling out the zinnias, zucchini, peppers, basil, tomatoes and some of the tender annuals. I had been planning on pulling out the tomatoes this weekend anyway – the ones that weren’t splitting just weren’t very nice anymore. But
I swore no more dahlias after I realized I no longer had a way to store them. (With the heat pump install last year, we now have to keep our back room’s door open to get heat in there. It used to just be the end of the line of our furnace circuit, which kept
So, remember that pile of mulch we got delivered the beginning of the week in April I ended up coming down with Covid? Yep, just finally spread the rest of it out. It’s a little lumpy, because the roots of the arborvitae next to it had started to grow into it. Oops! So I’ll have
The garden is doing pretty well – I’ve been making decent dinners with our produce. The heat probably wasn’t the best for it, but I was at able to keep the food alive. I had to top the tomatoes today – they’re putting on a ton of new growth that can’t all ripen if I
Well, step #1 toward our solar installation is done. The tree on the east side of the house is down. I don’t take cutting down a tree lightly, but this was a junky tree – that side of the house is constantly littered with small branches. Plus, it’s a Norway maple, so it’s been sucking
The garden’s coming along very nicely – it filled in quite a bit while I was gone. Of course the bad of being away for a week is that my peas went over while I was gone, so I didn’t really get to use those quite as well as I would have liked to. So
