That is how I think of this time of year: busy. The rare spring moments of enjoying tender sunny weather, with soft fragrant breezes and the shifting clouds pierced by shafts of light, while bearing the showers that keep ground moist and sprouts growing, is crowded by my race with the earth to gain mastery […]
Vegetable garden
Garden Work Between the Raindrops
That sums up my goals lately. When there are the few sunny, dry days I try to mow down the lushly grown grass, grub out the lusty weeds, make places for the new plantings and soak my tired bones at the end of the day. But then the rains come….and come…. On weeding: the ground […]
It’s Been A Hard Day’s Work…
And if I believed in such a thing, it was jinxed! I wrote a page on Kitchen gardens– which I hope to make into a series of two more pages and felt like making my own vegetable patch prettier this year. So I hilled up the broccoli beds a little more edged them with lettuces […]
Garden Update 4-08
This past Thursday was beautiful and I took advantage of the gentle weather to begin my garden activities for the year. Before the weekend rains was a good time to move some starts of lamium maculatum to an area that has dry shade, along the hot tub walkway. I organized my kids to help me […]
In the Deep Freeze
Deep freeze While we are in the deep freezer here in Ohio, I have been setting up (ever so slowly) my new computer. I find myself planning my garden season in the year to come, and am hopeful that my husbands newly mentioned interest comes to fruition. He seems most interested in the vegetable garden, […]
This Is Crazy
I don’t think it gets any more illogical than having statues that is statutes, arguing about whether a pumpkin gets eaten or not. Petunia, in ‘Get Your Pumpkin Tax Refunds’ reported on “Iowa Department of Revenue Press Release: Iowa Tax on Pumpkins Put on Hold”. Is that nuts or what? How is anyone supposed to […]
