After I’d finished covering everything with plastic, I remembered the little bed of bachelor’s buttons and dwarf red coreopsis I’d planted around the light pole. Good thing I did; they didn’t waste any time. Six days!

It’s going to be below freezing tonight and tomorrow night. Yes, I was too hot in shorts and a T-shirt yesterday. Maybe my newly planted seeds would be okay, but maybe not, so I covered the ones that didn’t have row cover on already. I had exactly  enough plastic to cover what needed covering. Purely […]

The castor beans want out! I actually noticed them yesterday; I glanced at the disturbed soil surface and thought, “Wait…Miffy doesn’t bother plant pots,” so I went to look. They’re not all out of the ground yet, and still nothing from the Bird of Paradise, but apparently they liked the table in the north window […]