The month is coming to an end as the warmest September on record, and the state drought monitor has labeled us “abnormally dry.” The garden is looking a little droopy and so am I. It was one of those weeks that, while not insanely busy, was constantly busy and had little down time. James and …
Category: Seasons
Dry
Shhh, sleeping bees After a summer during which I didn’t have to water the garden once because it rained every few days, the faucet has been turned off. We’ve been dry since the last week of August. Oh we had thunder and rain yesterday afternoon, but while the thunder rumbled for nearly half an hour, …
And So It Begins
Gardening season that is! Old enough to join AARP I was away last week visiting my mom in San Diego and the weather I left in Minnesota turned out to be nicer than the weather in California. Go figure. It being California, however, the trees were green, some were flowering, and and all sorts of …
Winter Strikes Back
Obligatory snow photo Last Wednesday in this almost nonexistent winter that seemed, a couple weeks ago, to decide on spring and turned warm and sunny enough to encourage Silver Maple to bloom, buds on shrubs to swell, the tulips to pop up, and the rhubarb to begin to poke their prehistoric looking crimpy leaves to …
Plastic and a Little Gardening
Witch Hazel is flowering! Friends who've known me for awhile, know that James and I have been undertaking removing as much plastic from our lives as we can. It began as a way to reduce plastic waste because recycling wasn't good enough (mircoplastics) and food wrapped in plastic often has plastic in it. We've been …
