Click for larger A lot has happened in the garden. The trees are gone and there is more sunlight all around. I’ve planted 2 blackberries, 3 elderberries, 50 strawberries, 4 rosas, 2 hazels, 2 serviceberries, 1 jostaberry, 2 peashrubs, 4 muntead lavender, 8 grapes, 4 wormwoods and 1 witchhazel. I’ve put in 90% of my …
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First Plantings of Spring and More Gardening News
Our insane wood pile after tree removal I received a large box in the mail on Friday, the kind of box that could only house… plants! Fedco. Of course they had to arrive on the busiest weekend since last Summer. Of course I wasn’t ready… So after our Earth Day Celebration I stuck almost all …
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Hoop House Cover Up
Some days ago I had a chance to run out and pull one side of the hoop house plastic out from under the leftover snow (it thawed some, finally!). It involved breaking up the huge slabs of ice that had formed inside the “hoop sloop” and pulling them out, then draining the melt water. You …
Hoop House Update, Bees, and Washing Indoor Plants
DH and I tried to save it, but the snow inside the “boat”/”float” is unapproachable. The bent pipes are still holding it up, about 1 foot off the ground, which is good on the one hand because the beds inside aren’t (totally) crushed, but which is also a problem because we can’t just jump in …
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RIP Hoop House 3.0 ?
We woke up to one more foot of snow and this: That’s not the shape it had yesterday. Something gave. I’m still smiling here. I don’t know why. A peek inside: one of the connectors snapped. Should I go in and try to push off the snow from the inside? It’s creaking ominously… Better not, …
Neem for Aphids and Whiteflies
This is what the view out of the window looks like at the moment. Glorious! DH and I spent three hours digging out our driveway on Wednesday (1 1/2 feet of heavy snow over about 2000 sq.f) and it had been a long time since I had been that exhausted. As I trudged back up …
What’s Growing in the Hoop House: Anti-Stress
Sorry to be so absent. It will get worse. We are traveling to India on the 10th – will be back on New Year’s Day. That is the plan. Thing is, our passports are still at the Indian Consulate without any explanation, or response to our emails, and no one ever answers the phone. If …
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My Shady Shady Garden
Summer 2010: Annotated: Close up of veg garden: And these gaps close more and more, every year. It’s time to rethink…
Plans for Next Year: Chickens, Bees, Frogs
Next year I want would like: a second colony, in a homemade top bar hive. chickens, 3 of them. the beginning of a dwarf fruit tree orchard. a guild around the cherry tree. an earth oven in a straw bale shelter, a strawbale low wall with welcoming arch up front, and some strawbale benches, shelters …
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Summer Hoop House to Winter Hoop House
We finally have a winter hoop house. We moved the thing from its summer to its winter position yesterday and today. It took us, 2 adults and 1 5-year-old, 6 hours, and about 2 hours of that was spent on making new parts. Not bad. Those end walls weigh a TON! Our trusty Radio Flyer …