Got caught in today’s spring shower, which was anything but light though it was warm (at first anyway)! My sweatshirt hanging on a chair by the dining room radiator still isn’t dry, but then again the heat has barely needed to come on today. Another 60°F day. Continue reading “Garden Growth–15th April, 2019”
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Garden Growth–April 13, 2019
The first in what I hope will become a regular effort to streamline a garden journal to have at least a finished dead basic record of what I’ve done on a given day. Here goes! Continue reading “Garden Growth–April 13, 2019”
Watering, snipping grass, neglected compost and old foe skeletons
I did manage to get some time outside yesterday to do more than a round of watering. Compared to last year, I’m consistently using three “can fills” per water from the rain barrel so far, where last year we barely needed just the one. Most of that is due to the kitchen garden related plants, as well as trying to encourage some perennials that didn’t overwinter very well. We haven’t been able to pick up the new rain barrel we paid for, but will when schedules align. We haven’t needed it yet, so I’m not agonizing over the lack of pickup, if it matters.
Continue reading “Watering, snipping grass, neglected compost and old foe skeletons”
Working as weather allows…
Today was the only day this week that was forecast to not have precipitation, so we were determined to try to spend at least an hour outside. I know that seems a too small goal, but we have a lot going on besides just the gardens. Continue reading “Working as weather allows…”
Learning to work with a new climate
The gardens I grew up in and near were in southern NJ, on a barrier island where if you dug too deep, you’d hit soggy brimed soil. The property was one block from the bay, two from the ocean, on the northernmost part of the island which was narrow there compared to most of the island.
Despite that, my maternal grandparents had thriving gardens full of ornamentals as well as food crops, though we didn’t have a lot of tall trees. Continue reading “Learning to work with a new climate”