From commentor Marvel: With cooler temps and promised rain, today was a good day to swap the cloth row covers out and the poly covers in. Done and done. It rained last night, with more scheduled for next week. Time to pack away the garden’s summer clothes (fabric row covers) and break out the winter …
Garden Chats
Open Thread: Sunday Morning Garden Chat
From commentor Carbon Dated: This bounty is from the best garden of all: Nature untended. I’ve been collecting mushroom for eats (mycophagy) since the Carter Administration. The summer/fall of 2011 is by far the best mushroom year I’ve ever known in the Northeast. So much frigging rain. These are all from Bridgehampton, Long Island, plucked …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Marvel: The summer garden’s finally starting to wind down out back: picked the last of our corn & cauliflower this AM and have only about a quarter as many tomatoes out there as we started with. No rest for the wicked, though: the apples will want picking, cooking and canning by the end …
Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
Some more photos from commentor Carbon Dated, in Manhattan’s East Village: Honeysuckle. This gorgeous bloom is one of many flowering plants that find their way into the garden without human intervention. The alligator’s name is Nixon. (‘I am not a croc.’) The plants are the young poppies; this pic taken in late May… … the …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Scott: You had asked for some pix of our gardening efforts. Here’s a couple of the garden along the rail of the upper deck; or, as a friend refers to it, “nice hedge.” It does function as a sight barrier affording us some privacy on the deck. __ A mix of flowers, ornamentals, …
Open Thread: Sunday Garden Chat
From commentor Munira: Here are some garden pictures from southern Quebec. It was a fantastic garden year here – plenty of heat and plenty of rain. I have a huge vegetable/fruit garden and everything did either spectacularly well or pretty well except the cauliflower, which until today had not produced one single head. This morning …
Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat
From commentor Feebog: Attached is a pic of my harvest from the middle of last week. Grape tomatos, early girls (still going) and romas. Plus a yellow zuc and a small bell pepper. I’m in SoCal and the weather, except for last week, has been surprisingly mild. *********** From commentor RossinDetroit: __ This mantis took …