I was so excited because we managed to get the rain barrel out before the heavy rains set in here, and when I checked it this morning it was full. Time to pat myself on the back, right?
Alas, what I didn’t yet know… Continue reading “It works, until it doesn’t.”
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.”
We managed to get one rain barrel out today, as there is rain predicted. They keep cutting back on how much rain to expect, and now it’s been pushed off clear until tomorrow morning. Continue reading “Garden Growth–22 May 2020”
For newbie gardeners, some hard lessons can be learned when you work on your garden sooner than was wise due to your local climate. In the three years we’ve been here, we’ve had some spectacular wishful thinking failures. This was due to a combination of things, but one prevalent factor was our last frost date. Continue reading “Last Frost Date Lessons, Part One”
Just came in from dumping scraps in the compost. Everything is frosty, and wow the ground under my wellie booted feet was hard as rocks when I did a quick walk around. I just checked as I was writing this, and the temperature had just risen to 32°F. Continue reading “The year is already getting away from me.”
…a lot has happened here, both online and outside our home. Bad: Ultimately, I did not convey nearly as much here on this site as we actually did outside. Good: We did manage to get a lot more done outside this year than we did the last two. Hooray for progress! Continue reading “In the year 2019 for Growing in Gardner…”
…on Nov 8th with it being 30°F outside! Going down to 18°F tonight. Continue reading “Finally emptied the rain barrel…”
…we realized we’d never turned the outdoor spigot cutoff on because we hadn’t needed it. That was yesterday, the 15th of August. Because of how the rain barrel’s spigot isn’t at the dead bottom of the barrel, we did try tipping it to get at more inside, but there’s only so far you can push that to get at the last bits left–plus then there’s the sediment issue from what ever’s gathered over the season thus far.
The rains did come in various waves, and the rain barrel filled completely, so it was easy to fill one jug between the rains. Temperatures hit higher than expected to just above 70°F. Did more inside than out today. Continue reading “Garden Growth–20th April, 2019”
