I don’t have a great picture right now. (I couldn’t see posting until I took one.) But I was looking out my window and see them reaching up, looking to start to bloom in a week or so (a very rough guess). They are an interesting thing in my yard.
When we moved in, the [...]
I have ‘the basics’ done on the first bed that I’ve tried my hand at irrigating. I have a valve on my ‘regular’ sprinkler system set aside to eventually control this area. And each bed will have a shut off so I don’t have to water everything the same amount. But I’ll be able to [...]
My first Bloom Day…and it’s tax day. Not a good combination.
Late start…west coast…I’m sure no one is catching this tonight. I’m even going to cheat and post ‘old’ pics. I took some today, but it was a bit late. These are from about a week ago.
Flowering Trees
Coral Tree (leafing out…losing it’s flowers)
Honey Locus (leafing [...]
I don’t do it very well. I have two Smith & Hawken Biostack units that didn’t cost me anything.
I like the theory behind them, and I have plenty of room to move them around. But they just don’t work for me. I finally realize that. I often have more to compost than I have room [...]
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My first Green Thumb Sunday post. And I feel that I’m cheating already. I did not grow this tomato from seed. There…I said it.
But I do like taking macro photos of things. And this was pretty. And I probably wouldn’t have posted it otherwise. So there you go.
This is on a Hillbilly Potato [...]
I SWEAR that when I went out at 7 am, there was only one bean sprout there. It came up a couple days ago. But when I went out at 10 am…there were three! It’s supposed to be almost 100 degrees here today. Yuck! I just can’t help but wonder what else will emerge before [...]
The corn is coming up!
But something is eating my eggplant.
I think the consensus is that it’s an animal eating the lettuces and a bug eating the eggplant.
I was going to pick up some irrigation supplies and some things to build critter barriers, but I got caught up pulling weeds instead. It’s tough being back at [...]
…the good news is
I’ve got sprouts!
…the bad news is
something has been eating my lettuce. And I’m guessing that means that my little bok choi sprouts will be on the menu tomorrow.
Oh well. I’m back to work, so whatever is eating the lettuce (and a bit of swiss chard) will get another day of feasting. [...]
I’m a teacher, and spring break is rapidly coming to a close. We always think we’ll get more done than we do when given a window of time. This time, I probably got more done. I didn’t do some of the stuff I would have liked to have gotten done and some of the things [...]
I had this patio installed a few years ago. Long story about why it is where it is and looks the way it does (the guy never finished it…3/4 his fault…1/4 my fault) and I was going to have it ‘fixed’ before I planted this border.
But after three years…I just needed to plant SOMETHING. And [...]
