This year’s growing season started off fabulously. We had a prolonged cool and wet spring so I waited until the beginning of June before finally transplanting tomatoes and annuals: the soil by then was warm and moist. I mulched well, things started to grow and, for a while, all was good in my little garden […]
Category: Edibles
6 on Saturday – 19APR2025 – Spring
A month after spring officially started there’s finally enough happening in my garden to share six things, and to finally join Jim at Garden Ruminations again in his Six on Saturday meme.We had a nice cold temperatures and a decent amount of snow this past winter, for a change, I might add, which delayed by […]
Six on Saturday – 27MAY2023 –
It’s been a pretty glorious week here – half a day of rain on Wednesday but the rest of the week has been nothing but sunshine and unicorns. I was able to get my tomatoes and dahlias planted yesterday and will be sinking gladiola bulbs later today, as well as sowing Zinnia and beet seeds. […]
A Few Final Sunflowers
A had a few early sunflowers this year, volunteers that sprouted in April and were in full bloom by the end of June. Only one of the seeds I actually planted in the garden even germinated, and it was nipped in the bud, so to speak, when it was only a few inches high, So […]
Six on Saturday – 27AUG2022 – Feeding Time
Harvest time has begun in earnest, for me and for the bees