I fell down an internet rabbit hole tonight, browsing way too many old house garden pages. Continue reading “Late night reading, away from the weather.”
Tag: snow
8th of January, Office Window View
Fall snow on the garage roof.
Fall, snow!
It might melt by the time the sun comes up to try to take a picture, but a bit of the white stuff fell from the sky over the course of the night. Barely a dusting, but still snow. Continue reading “Fall, snow!”
Looked back at a year ago this time-ish
I tried to recall if we still had snow and such this far into April last year, and I found this in my run-on writing (elsewhere) on April 19th about snow still on the ground: Continue reading “Looked back at a year ago this time-ish”
There may be a day you wake up, see the weather is much better than predicted, and find yourself raring to go in the garden. Continue reading “Mother Nature has a sense of humor”
Mother Nature has a sense of humor
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”
