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”
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A personal rant about landscape fabric
Think of the future!
More specifically, think of your future, especially if you’re the poor sod that will have to deal with the problems it causes down the road.
Don’t try to fool yourself for a minute about landscape fabric, folks. Continue reading “A personal rant about landscape fabric”
13th of June, office window view
A solo slug.
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”
Update on growing bits and seeds — second week of June ’18
Bought two plant seeds this week, black eyed susans and bachelor buttons. I did manage to get them in a planter for the time being. I’m still wary of the squirrels, though the susan seeds are so tiny they can’t possibly want to steal those, right? I’m going to try stagger sowing them a bit, though not by much because the start is already pretty darn late this year. (Hullo, June!) So I only did some of each to start. Continue reading “Update on growing bits and seeds — second week of June ’18”
Quick notice regarding images
For now, I’m trying to keep this a free site because right now we need the funds for other things (read: house poor). Since my cheaper camera either has malfunctioned or I need a new storage disk for it, I’ve mostly been using the better camera. Continue reading “Quick notice regarding images”
A pair of Scarlet Malachite Beetles
Never give up! Never surrender!
Despite how little I have managed to get done in the last week and change, I am still determined to press forward however I can. Seems obvious, right? If you stop, things will really get out of hand, and more work for later, which no one wants.
Fortunately for me, the only things I’m worried about killing are all the starter kitchen plants that haven’t made it into the ground yet.
The good news is that a lot is growing just fine on its own, and no thanks to my efforts except in a few cases where I rescued a few things from various less than ideal situations. Continue reading “Never give up! Never surrender!”