I fell in love with this book when I first borrowed it from our local library. Yes, it was older and a handful of practices within it had since been improved upon within gardening communities, but more often than not, the lessons and strategies within were still sound. When I realized how many times I was borrowing it, I tracked down a copy and bought it. Continue reading “Remember The 2 Hour Garden book?”
Month: March 2021
Sun & Shade Mapping: Spring Equinox, 2021
I am a natural night owl. So yesterday I simply stayed up just to see if we would have any sunlight worth noting at 6AM. We did not, but I still managed to catch a neat shot. I did manage the 9AM as well, but then fell asleep in my chair and woke up just in time to snap a near noon shot before toddling off to bed. I did get up in time for the 6PM. I cheated a bit today by taking the 3PM shot because I figured one day difference is still close enough. (Said to self while inwardly cheering the skies were not cloudy as well.) [Note: I took an actual 3pm shot today (22nd), so for those that might have seen this post before, now the sequence makes more sense. If this is your first time reading it, I moved the prior note about why I had to fix a mistake to the bottom of the post.] Continue reading “Sun & Shade Mapping: Spring Equinox, 2021”
“A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we’ve lost 97% of our wildflower meadows. So please plant at least one nectar-rich flower in your garden or community this year. Your one flower could be the pit stop that saves a bee”
~ Little Green Spaces Tweet Continue reading “Save a bee–plant a bee pit stop”
Save a bee–plant a bee pit stop
Weekly Site Changes: March 13th-19th, 2021
Oh, the pitfalls of depending on common sense being common. Once upon a time a free WP migration to self host was easy peasy to do via file transfers. Things have since changed, and this move was fraught with hiccups and annoyances that are still eating up precious spare time I’d rather be spending on other site changes. Still, it’s gotta get done.
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I see you shiver with ant…
It took me a while before I started to feel like the conspiracy board meme guy, but all through this week ants just keep showing up in my life. Continue reading “I see you shiver with ant…”
March 20th is the Spring Equinox
Which means that as Past Me wanted to remind Future Me, today’s an ideal day to take some shade/sun pattern pictures at 6AM, 9AM, noon and 3PM to start in on this year’s shade & sun mapping of the back yard. Continue reading “March 20th is the Spring Equinox”
First sighting of new green, from the orange curly day lilies
Online presentation: Drawing on Birds: Comics, Science, and Sharing Nature
I was lucky to catch a tweet just in time to attend a live online event held two nights ago by the North Branch Nature Center up in Vermont. I wasn’t aware of that organization prior, so I’m glad I saw the notice. I’m also happy to say, if you missed it live, you can still watch it!
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Rough draft of our garden plans for 2021
If I have learned anything in going on four years of trying my hand at gardening, it’s that it’s not hard for me to come up with plans. What’s hard is narrowing down those plans to a realistic list. So I’m going to try something new this year, which I hope will help us best whittle down our To Do List—which is still awesome to behold.
[Courtesy Notice: This is one of my long rambles so you might want to grab a beverage/snack beforehand.] Continue reading “Rough draft of our garden plans for 2021”