Hello Dear Garden Loving Friends! We are at the cusp of the year, and I greet you as garden-loving, rather than gardening, since some of us -as John so wisely remarked to me- have had a few barriers to doing as much as we might have wished in the garden this year. For some of […]
2011
Everything Is Late, But Coming Along
Home in Late June My main endeavor this summer has been to weed, since absent from the garden so long. While taking care of the vegetable plot, which if you will remember was planted hurriedly just before leaving town, I noticed some tomato fruits. Green, small to medium sized, but coming along. After all the […]
June 2011 Report for Flatironed Acres
Flatironed Acres is what I have decided to call this place because it looks like God took an old fashioned flatiron and smoothed it out without fold or wrinkle. Some passing thunder rumbled, but it proved an empty threat of rain. I had taken note of it this morning and continued my efforts at reclaiming […]
Florida is Beautiful-and Dry, Very Dry
From A Garden Journal, Diary of Ilona’s Garden Looks like Ohio is getting everyone’s rain, but saw the terrible news about the tornadoes. I can only imagine the rainforest-like conditions that await me at home. Hopefully my little tomato plants are surviving- I left them protected by clay drain pipe, which is how I always […]
My Daffodils Photo Collage
If you enjoy viewing these photos, you may like reading about daffodils in the garden: Five Steps to Dazzling Daffodils How To Plant Dutch Bulbs For Fabulous Spring Flowers Daffodils What Is The Big Deal About Bulbs In The Garden? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2011 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. An excellent blog.
Rainiest Season Ever
I talked with my husband in Ohio and it is still raining, and quite cool. He heard the farmers have only a small fraction of their fields planted with the corn crop. People aren’t able to keep up with the mowing either, although that is a lesser problem. There are a number of problems for […]
