It finally heated up and this is what we expect in July: hot muggy weather. It is time to keep up with the weeds, hoeing them out in the morning means that the hot sun is killing the weeds and not you. Afternoons are made for sipping lemonade in the shade of a tree. Look […]
July
Mowing and Weeding
Sorry the pictures aren’t up yet, I’ve kept too busy to blog properly, although I have tried to keep the facebook going. Mowing and weeding are all we are doing right now. Ohio has turned into a rain forest, it seems, the perennials are lush and the grass abundant. Unfortunately, the fields have flooded and […]
Rural Observations
This week I traveled from mid-Ohio to mid-Indiana, and there is quite a bit of rural landscape to be enjoyed along such a route. I keep track of how the farm crops are doing since I live in the midst of corn and soybean country here. As might be expected, even with the rain we […]
July has its own poetry
We go in withering JulyTo ply the hard incessant hoe;Panting beneath the brazen skyWe sweat and grumble, but we go. -Ruth Pitter, 1897-1992, The Diehards, 1941 Technorati Tags: summer poetry, Ruth Pitter
The Garden In July
This year things are all backwards, which I guess goes with a weather pattern that gave me spring in January! But only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the height of heat, but mad Midwestern women actually try to start their weeding campaign at this season. Count me in. I managed to work in […]
July and the days are steamy….
Inniswood Garden I made another template and in parallel I am trying to renovate the garden, as well. I started nearest the house, weeding out the lavender-rue hedge along the walk. and the bed around the pole lamp. Then I started on the approach to the back door. Out here in the country most people […]
