Hullo, Future Me. It’s Past Me again and wow I really messed up with seeds overall. No, seriously–I really messed up! Continue reading “Note to Future Me #16”
Category: Behind the Scenes
The other bits that help the garden grow.
Weekly Site Changes: February 11th-17th, 2023
Sometimes, I feel like the Petunia. “Oh no, not again.”
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“It sounds dumb, but sometimes I think that I garden just so that I can compost. It’s actually really interesting and fun to see a bunch of dead junk turn into pure black gold.”
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If you watch 1 gardening video all year, make it this one!
A complete guide to soil microbiology.
Compost Leads to Garden?
“For nearly as long as they’ve been popular, lawns have served as a totem of middle-class vulgarity, conformity, and excess. In her landmark 1962 book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson denounced the wanton use of lawn pesticides. Carson’s contemporary, activist Lorrie Otto, condemned yards as ‘sterile’ and ‘flagrantly wasteful.’ Polemics as cutting as a mower’s blade have proliferated in the decades since, but lawns abide. Spivak and her team come not to bury them, but to adapt them to the insects vital to the entire ecosystem—and our food supply.”
— Tom Philpott,
“Your Perfect Green Lawn Is a Buzz Kill.”
Mother Jones, May 7, 2020
Continue reading “It’s time to change the standard for American lawns”
It’s time to change the standard for American lawns
Observing more birds hanging out this year
I’m a bit excited that both some of the rewilding efforts we’ve put in, as well as the lack of time to make things a bit tidier than usual seems to be attracting a broader variety of birds that don’t just simply buzz through our yard heading east to our neighbor that keeps feeders out year round. Continue reading “Observing more birds hanging out this year”
Weekly Site Changes: June 26th-July 2nd, 2021
I, for one, am a bit tired of living in interesting times.
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Weekly Site Changes: June 19th-25th, 2021
Yep, still plugging away at playing catch-up.
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“If your plan is for one year, plant rice.
If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.”
What is your plan?
Our front yard rain barrel is finally in place.
It was only yesterday when I finally got around to setting out the front yard rain barrel, and it’s already full! Continue reading “Our front yard rain barrel is finally in place.”