November 23, 2024
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Hi, everyone.
Get this. In late July I was weed whacking around a flower bed. I had to bend over to move a loose rock out of the way, and promptly got stung on the hand...
July 2024 - Garden And Stuff
By: • Gardening • 99 Comments • 2 months ago
July 15, 2024
Hi all. You may remember the problems I had with last year's garden. So many things wouldn't grow that I gave up in July to let the soil rest. After the rest and the addition of...
2023 Garden Wrap Up, And Other Stuff
By: • Gardening • 64 Comments • 2 years ago
Previous blog posts:
2023 – Another Year, Another Garden
2023 Garden Update 1
2023 Garden Update 2
October 19, 2023
The updates were cut short this year because I pretty much...
2023 Garden Update 2
By: • Gardening • 36 Comments • 2 years ago
July 9, 2023
Well, it looks like this year's garden is shaping up to be a showcase of things that can go wrong. So far, anyway.
It was a dry spring, which is almost unheard of in my region.
A...
2023 Garden - Update 1
By: • Gardening • 29 Comments • 2 years ago
June 23, 2023
I'm sorry that it's been almost a month, but everything other than the tomatoes and potatoes are growing slower than normal this year, and I didn't really want to post an update...
2023 – Another Year, Another Garden
By: • Gardening • 167 Comments • 2 years ago
I don't know how often I'll be able to post updates, which are pic-heavy and time consuming, but I thought I'd try to blog another garden this summer.
Quick reminder: I don't claim to be an...
Garden 2021 - Part 3
By: • Gardening • 42 Comments • 4 years ago
The weather has been a mix of good and bad this month. Some days have been hot and humid, and downright nasty. Others have been pleasant and almost cool. I'm going into another hot spell at the...
Garden 2021 - Part 2
By: • Gardening • 24 Comments • 4 years ago
After a couple weeks of nasty July heat and humidity, this past week has been absolutely gorgeous. Another cool start to August, with highs only in the low to mid 80s. I could seriously get used...
Garden 2021 - Part 1 - Very Late Start
By: • Gardening • 46 Comments • 4 years ago
I got off to a late start this year, but it didn't matter. I had two hard freezes in late April, which would have undone everything anyway, so I suppose that actually worked out for the best....
The Garden Chronicles - Week 30 - End of Season
By: • Gardening • 23 Comments • 5 years ago
Well, it's dry at the moment, but it's been cool and rainy for the better part of the past 2 weeks, and I've had several frosts and one good freeze as well. Thus, my gardening growing season is...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 27
By: • Gardening • 23 Comments • 5 years ago
The weather is gorgeous. It's still dry, but temps are almost perfect. Two weeks ago it was chilly, but this past week it turned unseasonably warm, and it's supposed to stay that way until...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 24
By: • Gardening • 57 Comments • 5 years ago
The weather has been fantastic. Dry, but cool and crisp for weeks now. Perfect early fall weather. I've started working on the garden fence again because of it, even though the rabbit threat is...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 21
By: • Gardening • 54 Comments • 5 years ago
August turned out to be fantastic. One of the driest on record, but with the exception of a handful of hot days it was strangely cool and mild, and the lack of rain kept the humidity down most of...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 19
By: • Gardening • 12 Comments • 5 years ago
It's been a busy couple of weeks. The corn got harvested in three pickings, each two days apart, and in it's place three rows of fall peas went in. I also dug a trench where some of the corn was...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 17
By: • Gardening • 20 Comments • 5 years ago
More strange weather, but it's not altogether unwelcome this time. The heat and dryness continued for a week after my last post, and we were officially in moderate drought conditions, but then it...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 15
By: • Gardening • 23 Comments • 5 years ago
No rain yet. I've only had an inch in the past 5 weeks. The forecasted heat wave didn't fully materialize, though, so that's good. It has been getting into the mid and upper 90's, but no 100's so...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 14
By: • Gardening • 33 Comments • 5 years ago
No rain at all this past week, but the humidity dropped a bit and it was pretty nice overall. The week ahead, however, is supposed to be the hottest yet — upper 90's, with a chance of one or two...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 13
By: • Gardening • 30 Comments • 5 years ago
It finally rained. I got a little over an inch a few days ago, but it wasn't much help. All it really did was green the grass up a bit, and increase the humidity. June is usually one of the...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 12
By: • Gardening • 35 Comments • 5 years ago
It hasn't rained in almost 3 weeks, not since the remnants of Cristobal blew over. After a crazy amount of spring rain, it's just hot and dry now.
Figures, right?
- Wednesday -
The...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 11
By: • Gardening • 57 Comments • 5 years ago
It seemed pointless to post a week 9 blog just 3 days after week 8.5, and I was too busy last weekend to post a week 10 (these things take quite a while to make), so I'm just going to call this...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 8 1/2
By: • Gardening • 41 Comments • 5 years ago
This is several days late because week 8 turned out to be the wettest yet. I think the ground stayed completely saturated for at least 4 days straight. It killed the tomatoes and the eggplants,...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 7
By: • Gardening • 18 Comments • 5 years ago
Sure enough, the year I decide to try a garden blog ends up having one of the wettest springs on record. It was finally supposed to be dry and clear this past week, but of course, it wasn't....
The Garden Chronicles - Week 6
By: • Gardening • 43 Comments • 5 years ago
It's been cloudy and rainy for the better part of the past 2 weeks. Today it stopped around noon, gave me a few hours for picture taking, and then started back up again (with a little thunder and...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 5
By: • Gardening • 58 Comments • 5 years ago
This week's blog post almost didn't happen. Mother Nature just doesn't want to cooperate. It was rainy and unseasonably cool all week. As such, there's been very little growth, and this week's...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 4
By: • Gardening • 23 Comments • 5 years ago
It was cloudy the first half of the week. It even rained another inch on Tuesday, but the sun was shining on both Thursday and Friday, and things have mostly dried out.
*****
Muck no more....
The Garden Chronicles - Week 3
By: • Gardening • 37 Comments • 5 years ago
Ah, spring. Cold turns to warmth, brown turns to green, and flowers begin to bloom as the sun climbs higher in the sky with each passing day. The earth practically begs to be worked, and so,...
The Garden Chronicles - Week 2
By: • Gardening • 64 Comments • 5 years ago
It turned cool this week and the asparagus slowed down. It's still coming up, but not explosively. It actually frosted lightly on a couple of nights, but the apple blossoms seem to have survived....
The Garden Chronicles - Week 1
By: • Gardening • 89 Comments • 5 years ago
Hi, all. For a long time I've wanted to make a photo record of my garden growing from start to finish, and I've decided to give it a try this year. I thought I'd share some of it here on a weekly...
