I know tomatoes don’t appear until July so I was really surprised to see two cute, little yellow tomatoes on our yellow cherry tomato bush. According to John they were very good. I know it must be these new fangled plants not me that is causing this early and tasty production. I’m also not taking […]
After four or five weeks of just being green my garden has finally produced some color. I’ve got some deep pinks and purples from the first of the day lilies, some pale lavender from my Russian sage, and more dark pink from my purple cone flowers. Hopefully next year the weeks of unrelenting but various […]
Mother’s Day was pretty nice - John made me pancakes, Caitlin invited me to watch Saturday Night Live with her, and Caroline was actually home. (She arrived yesterday and will be here until June 8th when she heads off to Star Island.) Plus I got in almost four hours of gardening.
Mainly I tied up […]
This last storm was classified as blizzard, but it only gave us an additional six inches of snow which was on the very low end for our area. Uncle Bobby got almost another two feet. However, the wind gusts made it look really impressive as occasionally we couldn’t see the end of our driveway.
The […]
If I played tennis what I have would be called “tennis elbow”. But instead I weed so the annoying and sometimes sharp pain is what I call “weeding elbow”. It has made such things as carrying cat food boxes, getting milk out of the refrigerator, and opening cans rather challenging all summer. Plus any time […]
My first introduction to the purple cone flower was when an office mate brought in a bouquet of them. “Interesting” was the best thing I could say about them. They were awkward and gawky - muddy pinkish purple petals pealed back from an overly large center. But 20 years of breeding have improved their […]
My sugar snap peas are over 5 feet tall. Unfortunately my support for them is only about 4 feet tall so they are tipping over at the top. I keep leaning them back towards the support and encouraging them to hang on more, but they say, “The sun is that way.”
So far we are […]
I have found staring at the ground doesn’t make things grow. I know because lately I’ve been searching for signs of the sugar snap peas John and I planted. I gave up on the first round after nothing happened in about 10 days.
According to my web research sugar snap peas don’t germinate well so […]
Caroline is actually my favorite child. The last post was just an early April Fool’s!
Yesterday was one of those days that make you happy to live in Washington. We had a perfect 67 degrees. So we got in lots of gardening and yard work. John spent the day outside with the gang in the neighborhood and they even broke out the water guns.
The only drawback was the entire […]