Archive for the ‘Black Thumb’ Category
Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat — PNW Winter Bounty
From commentor Marvel: It’s been a mild winter here in the Willamette Valley (OR)—we had a few weeks-worth of hard-frozen nights, but the covered beds (6-mil poly) did a swell job of protecting our hardy veggies. We’re still nibbling away at our winter crop (kale, chard & spinach planted toward the end of last summer) [...]
February 5, 2012
· 
Anne Laurie · 
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Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
From Christine MacDonald at the Atlantic Cities blog, on “Why Every City Should Be Planting Rain Gardens“: Andy Wible’s backyard in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood doesn’t look much like a sewerage drain. But his Bayberry, Bee Balm, Iris and Golden Ragwort plants get the job done – and then some. Dug 30 inches down and [...]
January 29, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 74 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
I keep seeing this sign
The local police are parking this truck with the No On Two sign in the back all over town. This picture is from Thursday evening, when it was parked at a spot on the courthouse square. I heard yesterday that the mayor told them they were “not allowed” to park it in front of the [...]
October 22, 2011
· Kay · 73 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Enhanced Protest Techniques
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Marvel: With cooler temps and promised rain, today was a good day to swap the cloth row covers out and the poly covers in. Done and done. It rained last night, with more scheduled for next week. Time to pack away the garden’s summer clothes (fabric row covers) and break out the winter [...]
October 13, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 14 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
From commentor Carbon Dated: This bounty is from the best garden of all: Nature untended. I’ve been collecting mushroom for eats (mycophagy) since the Carter Administration. The summer/fall of 2011 is by far the best mushroom year I’ve ever known in the Northeast. So much frigging rain. These are all from Bridgehampton, Long Island, plucked [...]
October 9, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 40 Comments
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Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Marvel: The summer garden’s finally starting to wind down out back: picked the last of our corn & cauliflower this AM and have only about a quarter as many tomatoes out there as we started with. No rest for the wicked, though: the apples will want picking, cooking and canning by the end [...]
October 6, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 9 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
Some more photos from commentor Carbon Dated, in Manhattan’s East Village: Honeysuckle. This gorgeous bloom is one of many flowering plants that find their way into the garden without human intervention. The alligator’s name is Nixon. (‘I am not a croc.’) The plants are the young poppies; this pic taken in late May… ... the [...]
October 2, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 18 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Scott: You had asked for some pix of our gardening efforts. Here’s a couple of the garden along the rail of the upper deck; or, as a friend refers to it, “nice hedge.” It does function as a sight barrier affording us some privacy on the deck. A mix of flowers, ornamentals, vegetable [...]
September 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 21 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
From commentor Munira: Here are some garden pictures from southern Quebec. It was a fantastic garden year here – plenty of heat and plenty of rain. I have a huge vegetable/fruit garden and everything did either spectacularly well or pretty well except the cauliflower, which until today had not produced one single head. This morning [...]
September 25, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 24 Comments
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Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Feebog: Attached is a pic of my harvest from the middle of last week. Grape tomatos, early girls (still going) and romas. Plus a yellow zuc and a small bell pepper. I’m in SoCal and the weather, except for last week, has been surprisingly mild. *********** From commentor RossinDetroit: This mantis took over [...]
September 23, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 48 Comments
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Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
From commentor Shell: My tomato thief. Yes, poor old Clemmie. Funny, the older she got, the more fond she became of them. But would always try to hide her munching. In this photo I’d caught her in the act but she’s walking away like ‘Who me? No, no, nothing to see here.” While the half-eaten [...]
September 18, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 72 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Carbon Dated: My place in the East Village, far east, near Avenue D. Some of the attached pics were taken early in the summer. We live in an old house (pre-1850); two cats, who lord it over the backyard garden. Taken from the roof (4 story bldg) in late spring. That is C-Word, [...]
September 15, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 65 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
Since I’m clean out of garden photos from commentors, you’re stuck with my pathetic freeholding. This is Zevon, tomato connoisseur, inspecting “his” vines—the planters are on the other side of the fence, but he’s entitled to pick all the Sun Gold and Sweet Treat cherry tomatoes that cascade over it, a duty he addresses with [...]
September 11, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 21 Comments
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Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
From commentor Noreen in Buffalo: I have enjoyed the garden photos you have been sharing in the garden blog so here are a couple of mine. The garden produce is starting to be harvested. This usually means I walk around & come back with a handful of mixed veg. Since my garden expresses itself in [...]
September 4, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 44 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor TheOtherWA: This spring was so cold and wet in the northwest, I just couldn’t get into gardening mode. Never planted the usual tomatoes and herbs. The raspberries did pretty well, they like cool weather (& were eaten before any photos were taken), but the grapevine is pathetic. The photo is a bunch of [...]
September 1, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 48 Comments
Posted in: Black Thumb, Open Thread
