post weekend update:

I finished up the second full weekend in the garden. I am behind and wirking to catch up. I didn’t start anything indoors late winter/early winter, so I’m taking risks sowing many things directly into the garden. Some things will be fine, others? We shall see. The two newest elevated beds are for brassica. Leaning […]

rain, growth, and the productive weekend

Our short cycle program’s peak has past, so I was back to a two-day weekend last week. After some brief socializing Friday night, I chained myself to the garden for the remainder of the weekend. Our county has free yard waste dropout every Saturday, so that’s where I started, bagging and hauling away seven yard […]

nudging the chaos, smoothing the heap

I am a thrifter. I like finding the deals on pretty things. I also like the rescuing of things, giving new life, loving worn well-used things, saving from the trash heap. So it goes, also, with the garden. I pay full retail for the food we grow, and the hardscaping. (And a chunk of our […]

a messy weekend

The rain this weekend made for a messy but productive time in the garden. Planting gets muddy, but weeding is easy-peasy. This year’s hot pepper varieties: ghost, trinidad scorpion, carolina reaper, red and orange habaneros, jalapeño M, and jalapeño F1.

the ebb and flow of the garden

Two steps forward, one back. Develop two new beds, lose another to invasive Johnson grass… So it goes down in the garden lot. Except that, this year, even with all the dead noxious overgrowth from last fall, the garden is full of life, and color. I can see the work done as much as the […]

the newest bed

The high heat of summer has arrived, so everything moves slower in the garden. My breaks match or exceed my working sessions so I can cool down and rehydrate. The goal is always to stop buying new plants before ninety plus degrees, but the clearance racks have been very good to me this year, and […]

the garden, after the rain

We never got the rain expected yesterday, but this morning brought a long, slow drizzle followed by a brief heavy shower. The garden ended up lush and in full bloom as a result. the ‘nosferatu’ daylilies are at their peak

the garden, in macro

this evening, in the garden

We have arrived at the heat of the season, having spent most of the past week breaking ninety degrees. And the garden loves it! So much is thriving in the garden right now. This is a great year for expansion, and I am riding the current state of it like a giant wave of motivation […]

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