Happy Solstice y’all! Today for Solstice we got rain, a lovely gift because along with heat we’ve also been having a drought. The drought is so bad that the Mississippi River, the main source of water for the Twin Cities, is just a few inches above its lowest recorded level in 1976. The rain is …
Category: Gardening
Garden Visitors
One of the best things about not having a front and backyard of manicured lawn is more-than-human visitors who also spend time there. Not all of the visitors are as welcome as others and some of them have a problem with sharing. Squirrels are both entertaining and infuriating. I cannot deny their antics make me …
End of May Garden
I was going to post lat weekend about the garden but I was so busy working in it that before I knew it, the weekend was over and I was busy with the week. This is a long holiday weekend in the U.S. though, and today is not an especially nice one to be outside—cloudy …
Gardening Weekend!
It’s gardening weekend! Whoop! Whoop! Last year during COVID lockdown the Friends School Plant Sale was cancelled. It was the first Mother’s Day weekend in something like 17 years that we did not have a crazy garden sale weekend. Well they are back this year in a COVID appropriate way that turned out to be …
Experiments
For the past many years I have been using row cover fabric in the garden in spring to keep squirrels from digging up newly planted veg beds. It has worked beautifully. Until now. But there is backstory. Cue wavy picture and flute-y music for going back back-in-time. Here we are in late summer 2020. A …
