No it isn’t a “Honey-do” list, but just some reminders before the season gets away from you! As it often does for me…. This is a great month for planting things- the still warm weather means that plants can get settled in, and the autumn rains are coming which should give everything good rooting conditions. […]
2009
Have a Great Labor Day Weekend
The official last day of summer- enjoy it :) Remember no more white shoes, and even summer whites are out of sync. whatever happened to all those old unspoken rules, anyway? DH just cleaned out the chimney in preparation for chilly nights when we will have to fire up the wood stove- may it delay […]
State of the Garden September
Didn’t I just give you all an update? Well, I walked you through, but there are other elements to what is happening here. Like trimming and pruning old big trees. I didn’t tell you about that, did I? Coming to this garden most of the great old trees were gone. This area is known for […]
September Forecasting
Whether by pure speculation or by scientific means we all wish to forecast the weather for purposes of being prepared. “Forewarned is forearmed” as it is said. I like to check in the the Farmers Almanac, and sometimes I remember to check their accuracy later and sometimes I don’t. I suppose you could say that […]
Garden update: August 2009
Last few days of the month mean a garden update is in order. In some ways the garden is an ogre again, but in a Shrek sort of way. Walking around the garden and putting in two bits worth of work this last week… here are my observations: The month has had dips and hills […]
Garden Meme- ory
Dear Friends…do try your hand at the Garden Haiku, and in the meantime I will attempt to follow Mr.Mcgregor’s Daughter invitation to a meme she proposed in July. For me this is the time for this meme which asks for a recount of this years best and worst annuals.Of course I will tweak it a […]
