So…the 2020 pandemic thing was quite a surprise. Hopefully that’ll be over or at least under control by the time you see this, the biggest gardening take away: waiting until later winter/early spring to order seeds is a bad idea. Even if you, like (Present) Me, actually have the list ready quite a bit of time before you figured you might order. We have to step up our timeline. Trust me on this. Continue reading “Note to Future Me #13”
Asides
Weekly Site Changes Update: May 1-7, 2020
Trying to pick back up where I left off, which led me to realize I still have others from earlier this year sitting in drafts. *eep*
Backdated changes made:
- Added April 18th, 2020–Office Window View since I wanted to use the image anyway as it was relevant to a post I wrote this week.
- Reversed the order of the slideshow so the newest image shows first, then works backwards in time. It’s much shorter than last year because I always drop off the year before’s images per recent update, and I still haven’t caught up posting all the 2019 Office Window Views.
Continue reading “Weekly Site Changes Update: May 1-7, 2020”
Weekly Site Changes Update: January 10-16, 2020
Shortly after I started trying to ferret out typos and mistakes in my Tags, I found my brain wondering what I might be doing to better help folks discover useful info to them on this site. Down the SEO research rabbit hole I fell– which in hindsight I could have spent the time better on my original goals of content catch up.
Before I forget: if you have two copper about anything site related, please feel free to leave a comment below. Continue reading “Weekly Site Changes Update: January 10-16, 2020”
Weekly Site Changes Update: January 3-9, 2020
I want to immediately point out a happy re-discovery: there is a very easy way to see all the tags one has used. I had forgotten as I hadn’t looked for the overall list in a while. This will make ferreting out near dupes and typos easier than I feared. Hooray! That’s one headache gone from the process later.
I know I said I was going to wait to do the weekly reports until I started dusting off unpolished content, but I have to admit keeping records help me remember what I’ve done in case I need to fix a foul up. Thankfully the progress with the first step (Culling the Categories) is going much faster than I thought. Continue reading “Weekly Site Changes Update: January 3-9, 2020”
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…
As I mentioned in this earlier post, I’ve been meaning to tighten up the overall organization here, as well as finally see some unfinished bits to completion over time.
In this post I hope to clearly explain why I made some changes I did, as well as what to expect ahead. I also purposefully over-explain and overemphasize some bits because not everyone knows the inner workings and terminology of WP blogs.
This post will be pinned until March 19th to try to alleviate confusion for folks that wander back here later on this year because they’re still recovering from the holly days and/or have not yet begun thinking about this year’s garden.
Note to Future Me #12
You realized in the past (mid 2019 I think it was?) that maybe, just maybe, it would be helpful to add Tags that were location/local conditioned based like hardiness zone 5, Massachusetts and New England. Some crappy day when it’s no good to work outside, go back to the older posts and add that stuff when it makes sense to do so. Continue reading “Note to Future Me #12”
2020 Site Change Plans, January edition
During the 2018-19 off season of gardening, I had inside projects to do, and lost time being the kind of sick where you mostly do what must be done rather than what you’d maybe prefer to spend time on doing.
I had higher hopes as this season’s off time arrived, and then my partner got hit with a heavier workload which meant I had to cover more than usual. That’s eased off, so I’m now trying to at least knock off some of my To Do list (which is awesome to behold). Continue reading “2020 Site Change Plans, January edition”
And then there were four…
Found two more eggs just now, bringing today’s total to four. All on different plants, but two each, each time, close by each other. All within view of my office window.
Busy as bees
This year has been more hectic than I ever anticipated, both in and out of the garden. Although I have continued to take garden notes and pictures, I have not had time to polish them. If you haven’t noticed, I have been trying to at least regularly update this year’s planting list.
As I write this, it’s raining yet again, hence my having time to write. If it wasn’t, I’d be out pulling up all the purple loosestrife that is now plaguing the front yard. Continue reading “Busy as bees”