Bye bye majestic beech, lovely oak… Removal guys came a day early. How’s that for a you-can-‘t-change-your-mind! And so it begins.
Category Archives: garden
A Month of Contrasts
April Fools! – contrast with – 3 April Those seedlings are still sitting on my window sills (inside) – and of course the spinach has bolted. I might be able to plant them out tomorrow, if the rain lets up and if it doesn’t snow! Downstairs in the basement the lights and heat mat are working …
What’s Growing in the Basement?
In order of sowing: scallions chives mizuna Evenstar collards rouge d’hiver lettuce Olympia spinach Bloomsdale spinach Mache Champion collards Claytonia Space spinach Red marble onion Bright lights chard Ventura celery Safir celery Redventure celery Dianante celeriac Wintebor kale Russian kale Brussels sprouts Waltham broccoli Krausa parsley rube red New England Aster Giant Winter spinach Cornflower …
New Life!
It’s time again! I turned on the heat mat below and the shop lights above, inserted four flats with an assortment of seeds, and two days later had tiny collards and lettuce. Can you spot them? Germinating at present:Â lettuces of all kinds, collards, kale, spinach, scallions, onions, chives, mizuna, mache, claytonia, chard, celery, celeriac, brussels …
Bush and Other Orders Happening
Ah, I don’t think I’ve ever spent so much on plants in my life. I just put a couple of orders through. Berry bushes and vines 1 Johns Elderberry 1 Â Adams Elderberry 1 Â Witch Hazel 50 Honeoye Strawberry 2 Bluebell Grapes 3 Island Belle Grapes (Campbell’s Early) 3 Marechal Foch grapes 1 Vaccinium vitis-idaea Red …
Dare to Dream
The future is all around us (Sherlock Holmes) As I was drafting this in my journal I was thinking how wonderful it is to have a place – my journal – where I can dream without fear and doubt. Then I thought, hey, I can do that on the blog too. Here goes: Plans for …
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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Last Summer Harvests
Today’s harvest of pepper, from the pepper plants I brought indoors. The bell pepper is from a plant I started from seed in March 2009. We finished the last tomatoes that were still ripening after I pulled them green, in November. of all the tomatoes in that picture, 99% ripened and was eaten. The cherry …
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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Considering Our Shade
out of our living room window Considering… that the house does not benefit a whole lot from being shaded by the trees to the south in Summer, that we could grow a more successful garden where it already is and expand it even more that we would make room for fruit, nut and coppice trees, …