I took a break today from lying down (2nd day in a row spent mostly in bed due to migraine + asthma). With Tom’s help I was able to spend a couple of hours doing light – EXTREMELY LIGHT – yard work – planting tulips, trimming back/removing old, damaged, and dead branches, and enjoying the […]
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This week in the garden: (last week of June 2022)
It finally got warm around here. A little too warm. Near (or slightly above) 90 at our home three days in a row. Not today, of course, when I had planned a little garden tea with my mother and one of our children! Today we’ll be lucky to reach 70. Still, the warmth was wonderful […]
Today in the Garden (publishing late – actual date enabled for viewing was 8 June)
Yesterday we worked for several hours. Today we were supposed to go to a soccer game (OL Reign) in Seattle, but my darling Tom looked at me and observed that it was a very good day for gardening and we had a lot of plants that needed attention. So we worked in the front/entry garden […]
Avoiding the brachiosaurs in the room…
The third quarter of our school year is almost at an end. But that’s not what I want to write about. There is a war in Eastern Europe, started by a madman with access to nuclear weapons and a previously demonstrated and re-confirmed complete disregard for the lives and safety of his own citizens, let […]
Today in the Garden (Life with Birds – and Squirrels)
Last Wednesday, while we were out looking for a few last-minute grocery items (eggs, cilantro, etc) we stopped by the local Wild Birds Unlimited (a chain of franchise stores, our local one has been around for a very long time). The people there are always so kind and knowledgeable. Tom had been in a couple […]
Today in the Garden
It’s been a while again, so a quick tour may be helpful. I had a quick “sprint” through the pond garden this afternoon before I wandered down the driveway a bit to do some warm-weather gardening. I really love the warmer weather. My joints don’t hurt as much, and I am not cold all the […]
Garden updates
Halfway through April, and there is a lot going on in the garden. A cold frame appeared last weekend, so this weekend it got some plants! The daffodils continue to delight in the shady grove by the Asian Pears and Apples. The gooseberry in front of some of the limbs that fell in January. Trying […]
Garden in Winter, Heralds of Spring
The garden right now is in that stage between dormancy and exuberance. Here and there, small reminders that Winter is not forever, and Renewal lies around the corner. It has been a strangely dry winter, mostly mild despite the weeklong snow in January. Today, March 4, I took a few pics around the garden. Though […]
Garden Improvement
Well, it only took eleven years, but here is our latest gadget for the garden. We saw it on sale at woot.com several weeks ago, but it only arrived last week. Tom and the kiddo finished putting it together Friday night. As you can see, Lucky is very interested in the entire process. And the […]
The ENTIRE Potato Crop
Here it is, harvested today, along with the pumpkins. All volunteers, are very delicious looking… Happy Harvest-time and May the Best of the season be yours!