Ah, a nice, leisurely weekend of working in the garden — Actually, even in the suburbs, I have discovered that there is a fine line between gardening and farming, and I think I just pole-vaulted over it… Charles P. Pierce So, Territorial Seeds decided to deliver my tomato plants two weeks early. Fortunately, it was …
Garden Chats
Sunday Morning Garden Chat: Hardscaping
__ From commentor Gravie: Here’s my latest project. We got two pallets of landscape stone last fall and now have one left. I’m edging all of our garden beds, front yard first, back yard next. I might get finished in about 2015. It’s backbreaking (and hand-scouring) labor, but I really like the way it looks. …
Open Thread
Got three more flower baskets in the back yard finished this afternoon. I just picked a mix of plants and flowers that like shade, since this is under the pine tree and gets very little direct sunlight (only in the late afternoon for an hour or so). Things are starting to look good: Another week …
Late Night Open Thread, Math Fail + Gardening Edition
So I finally broke down, bit the bullet, and purchased my raised bed gardens. I was going to build them from scratch, but I ran the numbers at a couple lumber and supply yards, and every time I came up spending more than if I bought them from someone. So I ended up purchasing them …
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Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
__ __ From commentor Scout211, in Calaveras County, CA: Here is a pic of the beginnings of my garden for this year. (You did send out the call for pics. I thought a before and after might be good. Here is the before pic). You can see that my rhubarb is up and thriving already …
Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
Our lilacs are blooming. This is wonderful, because yay! LILACS!… but then again, in this area the lilacs are supposed to bloom around Mother’s Day. The daffodils are still going strong, and the earliest irises are just blooming. I mean, it’s nice that the creeping phlox is color-coordinating, but I never expected to have the …
Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
I have a yard where the oak leaves I didn’t get around to raking last fall no longer disguise the fact that the spring grass already needs mowing, a panoply of raised beds & containers that need to be cleaned out/reassembled/adapted for soaker hoses (Eastern Massachusetts is already in a drought and they say it …