Although I have put some time in cleanup around the garden of late, today was the first day I really put in more than an hour at one go and it looked like there was a discernible difference.
Garden Growth–19 May 2020
Tag: yard clean up
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”
Mad dash Thursday
I knew snow was coming, but it wasn’t until I saw the updated prediction for how much that I got my butt in gear and went out to gather some things from the woodsy pile. I also made sure all of the snow and ice removal tools were back inside the house and not in the garage. Continue reading “Mad dash Thursday”
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”