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”
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”
I have read about spreading out sowing times so not everything is needing harvesting all at once. I’m also concerned about the Acorn Bomber Brigade making short work of some of the seeds. I can’t wait too long for round two. I know because I recall the sunflowers sown way too late last year that never had a chance. Our growing season is only so long, after all. Continue reading “Starting with a few seeds at a time”
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!”
My partner somehow didn’t get called in today, so we started building our first kitchen garden bed where there will be peas and corn and other things. It was hard to get an angle where you could see the rough width, length from the window, but it’s not finished yet anyhoo. We’re on break now, and about to head back out to finish digging a bit, then we’ll fill with wood and see how tired we are. It’s been a long day for us. Continue reading “Woo! Unexpected progress…”
That is one of the reasons I have been so antsy now about the weather. The more spring showers we get, the more I realize what regrading I did manage to get to last year did help. At the same time, I want to finish what I started in other areas.
As can happen, although I had a clear plan in mind about how I would go about the regrade process, sometimes there’s that one thought or question in the back of your mind that just won’t die until it gets satisfied.
I had made non yard plans today because we were supposed to have rain. Yet it skipped us. Tomorrow, though, the forecast assures me, there will be rain! I have a backup yard plan if it doesn’t rain as much as they claim. Time will tell. Continue reading “Keeping focus”
Didn’t get a lot done today, but we did do a walk around, and roughly planned out this month’s projects and what might not get touched upon until next month. Continue reading “Walk around, shuffling plans”
I got my call back from the Building Inspector yesterday. Nice fellow. Definitely low key, and a fruitful conversation. Continue reading “The Walipini Project – part 3”
