Another beautiful day, followed by a red sky, which means another nice day (or so they say). No cloud cover though, so the temps just plummeted as soon as the sun went down. In the back of my house, behind my fence and in between the alley behind the house, I have about a 4-5′ …
Garden Chats
I Blame Gore
This is going to be a disaster if it keeps frosting like this: When you were basking in record warmth last week, farmers were worried. They knew the abnormal weather was making some plants vulnerable when seasonable weather returned. On Monday night, their fears were realized. “It got down to 21 degrees in some spots. …
Sunday Garden Chat: Dreaming of Summer Tomatoes
__ I believe this would be about the right time, here in the cold states, to set up the plant lights, pick out the seed packets, and start germinating transplants for the coming spring. Except I don’t start my own seeds, so I can’t properly illustrate that process. (Be more than happy to front-page photos …
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Sunday Morning Garden Chat – Hardy Greens
Since we’re coming up on seed-starting or possibly even mesclun-growing season, some inspiration from the NYTimes on “Living Off the Land in Maine, Even in Winter“: IT was early February, when the 10-hour day returns here on the 44th parallel, and Barbara Damrosch could see it in the brighter green leaves of her tatsoi and …
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Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat — PNW Winter Bounty
__ From commentor Marvel: It’s been a mild winter here in the Willamette Valley (OR) — we had a few weeks-worth of hard-frozen nights, but the covered beds (6-mil poly) did a swell job of protecting our hardy veggies. We’re still nibbling away at our winter crop (kale, chard & spinach planted toward the end …
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Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
From Christine MacDonald at the Atlantic Cities blog, on “Why Every City Should Be Planting Rain Gardens“: Andy Wible’s backyard in Washington, D.C.’s Petworth neighborhood doesn’t look much like a sewerage drain. But his Bayberry, Bee Balm, Iris and Golden Ragwort plants get the job done – and then some. Dug 30 inches down and …
I keep seeing this sign
The local police are parking this truck with the No On Two sign in the back all over town. This picture is from Thursday evening, when it was parked at a spot on the courthouse square. I heard yesterday that the mayor told them they were “not allowed” to park it in front of the …