Any post that includes actual plants indoors or out.
Sometimes you don’t have a lot of time or resources to do what you want. Life happens and postpones things. You just can’t make up your mind. Mistakes can be made even by experienced gardeners that cause setbacks as well.
Most of what we have done last year and so far this year hasn’t felt like enough even though I’d be a dunce not to acknowledge what has changed and acknowledge we really couldn’t do much more with the time and resources we had to spare. Continue reading “Let your garden grow”
I updated the 2018 Plantings page.
We’ve had another casualty, but some success as well (one noted by image yesterday). We also ate our first blueberries and raspberries of the season (red and black). It was still a bit soon for the blueberries we taste tested. The strawberries keep getting raided by the critters before we get a chance. To be fair, we have a lot more raspberry canes than we do fruiting strawberry plants so far.
Last year, as I was timidly letting my backyard go wild, I started spotting something that looked like it would be flowers and not a tall grass or weeds, but hadn’t the faintest idea what they might be. Continue reading “Devil’s Paintbrush”
The Will Rogers quote I also posted today is one near and dear to my heart. A friend of mine I play LOTRO with says that quote all the time. I share his belief in what it means, and have made many friends over the years where the initial contact between us was a meeting of strangers.
I also believe in the notion of sharing one’s abundance. We were very lucky here in that so many plants were already here, many are well established to boot. When you move to a new place, and really don’t know anyone, sometimes sharing is a way to meet someone that might turn out to be a life long friend. Continue reading “Thoughts on sharing and friendships”
I had noticed yesterday when looking at the patch along the fence that a leaf seemed to be crumpled a bit. I thought it was simply caught while growing under the next nearest leaf and grew oddly, so I bent down to nudge it open, and then felt uneducated. Inside was a larvae. I hadn’t even considered something would be inside. Continue reading “Speaking of strawberries…surprise!”
Today, as I am yanking up my latest nemesis–purple loosestrife–I see a tiny blob of red. “Huh,” I think to myself, “That’s new.”
Strawberries. Three tiny ones on a plant buried in the front yard sloped portion’s masses of wildflowers and grasses. Then I find another plant close by, also with red budding berries. Continue reading “strawberries everywhere followup part 2”
I further updated the 2018 Plantings list, adding some more details.
I planted more flower seeds today in pots indoors, as well as a few more fairytale pumpkin and pencil cob corn indoors just in case the ones that aren’t coming up yet were Acorn Bomber snacks. Continue reading “18th June Plantings and general Garden update”
