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 […]
Tag: plants
Garden Update
So, the squash continue to grow well, and the pumpkins seem to not be falling off quite so rapidly since I added calcium carbonate. I think there is hope for a small, late crop. Today, Tom and the elder stidkid worked very hard in the garden this morning while I was working on schoolwork (yes, […]
February…
For a month now, I have noticed the catkins on the hazelnut (filbert) bushes in the yard. They have been a bright spot in the landscape. The witchhazel flowers have greeted me as I have gone in and out the front door, and now I notice swelling buds on the red-flowering currants again. I haven’t […]
Spring Approacheth (but don’t get too excited yet)
There are now some lovely little “English daisies” (Bellis perennis) coming up in the lawn in places, their fuschia-and-white blooms contrasting nicely with the bright yellow of the dandelions (I like to think of the latter as droplets of sunlight rather than weeds). I can see trillium beginning to unfurl in the back, but can’t […]
Garden Update
It is raining. The plants are happy. Me? Not so. Finally felt well enough to garden, but no use stirring up mud. It compacts the soil too much. Still, the fence is holding up well. Tom made one minor repair Thursday, and we have small squash forming already. There is a cuke ready to harvest, […]
Plants in (and planned)
Already in the veggie garden, we have: From starts (Black Lake Organic starts, our favorite local nursery/garden store): Basil (one purple, one green, no name) Calendula (two “citrus” type and two other) Cucumbers (5, various types) Dill (no name) Parsley (flat, italian-style, no name) Tomatoes (3 varieties, I think they are 2 yellow pear, a […]
More plants and mathematics
I figured since I am avoiding math homework I might as well take a couple pics of the garden as it looks since this morning… This is me, looking over the squash (which are a little droopy from the hot sun today), just past 6 pm my time. This is the stidkid, looking over the […]
A few plants…
Here are the pictures we took of the garden on Tuesday. We have pretty much finished forming the basic shape, and have just to do the “finish work” on the remaining two large beds — leveling and breaking up the larger clods. We are not yet screening the soil, but it will need to be […]
Getting Started
We spent two hours this morning working on the garden. Despite having our neighbor do most of the heavy work with his dozer, we still need to form paths, infill at the back and build up the actual planting beds. This first pic shows the amount of dirt that is being moved to fill in […]
Today in the Garden…
When I woke up this morning (I slept in — luxury!), I noticed there were white spots all over the medlar. Sure enough, it’s in bloom all of a sudden! And the snowball bush has REAL snowballs again (though still a bit green). And the viburnum my neighbor planted in the gap in our hedgerow: […]