The garden continues to trudge along. I thought that by scaling down the number of plants this year I would have an easier time keeping up with it, but so far that hasn’t been the case. It’s been raining a lot, and the sun’s been out too, so things are growing well. However, that means [...]
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Garden: Green plants and weeds galore
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2008, Photos, tagged blueberries, corn, cucumbers, dill, gardening, onions, shallots, squash, tomatoes on June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Week Two
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2008, Photos, tagged beets, bleeding hearts, blueberries, chives, cilantro, fiddleheads, forsythia, Garden 2008, hosta, lilac, Michael Pollan, mint, pear, pussy willow on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to some helpful readers, we’ve identified the Mystery Bush (actually, bushes plural, since there are two in the yard) as a Pussy Willow. Most of the blossoms have fallen off at this point, but the leaves were catching the setting sun this evening as I sat on the back porch with Dante.
I haven’t got [...]
Garden Blog, Year Three: The Beginning
Posted in Emerald Place Garden 2008, Photos, tagged beets, chives, cilantro, daffodil, Garden 2008, hosta, lilac, mint, parsley, red onion, shallots, tilling on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t going to have a garden this year.
Last year’s efforts had gone pretty well, up to a point, before the garden grew completely out of control and we got discouraged and overwhelmed. The most important lesson learned was: “Don’t try to do more than you can handle.”
After the first year of the garden, we [...]
