Got three more flower baskets in the back yard finished this afternoon. I just picked a mix of plants and flowers that like shade, since this is under the pine tree and gets very little direct sunlight (only in the late afternoon for an hour or so). Things are starting to look good: Another week …
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Late Night Open Thread, Math Fail + Gardening Edition
So I finally broke down, bit the bullet, and purchased my raised bed gardens. I was going to build them from scratch, but I ran the numbers at a couple lumber and supply yards, and every time I came up spending more than if I bought them from someone. So I ended up purchasing them …
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Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
__ __ From commentor Scout211, in Calaveras County, CA: Here is a pic of the beginnings of my garden for this year. (You did send out the call for pics. I thought a before and after might be good. Here is the before pic). You can see that my rhubarb is up and thriving already …
Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
Our lilacs are blooming. This is wonderful, because yay! LILACS!… but then again, in this area the lilacs are supposed to bloom around Mother’s Day. The daffodils are still going strong, and the earliest irises are just blooming. I mean, it’s nice that the creeping phlox is color-coordinating, but I never expected to have the …
Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
I have a yard where the oak leaves I didn’t get around to raking last fall no longer disguise the fact that the spring grass already needs mowing, a panoply of raised beds & containers that need to be cleaned out/reassembled/adapted for soaker hoses (Eastern Massachusetts is already in a drought and they say it …
Open Thread
Another beautiful day, followed by a red sky, which means another nice day (or so they say). No cloud cover though, so the temps just plummeted as soon as the sun went down. In the back of my house, behind my fence and in between the alley behind the house, I have about a 4-5′ …
I Blame Gore
This is going to be a disaster if it keeps frosting like this: When you were basking in record warmth last week, farmers were worried. They knew the abnormal weather was making some plants vulnerable when seasonable weather returned. On Monday night, their fears were realized. “It got down to 21 degrees in some spots. …