Funny little peeping-croaks coming from the water garden. One. Two. Charlie also discovered toads…and how bad they taste. I took one from him, but then he went after another, and when I heard his pathetic howls, I knew he’d tried to bite it. I think the toad lived, but I’ll bet Charlie wished he […]
It rained hard last night, but that was nothing compared to the windy deluge we got at 1530h today. When someone said it was hailing, I thought, “My garden is fucked,” and expected to come home to flat, torn up plants. Nope. Just the purple tansy Onje flattens when he sleeps in them (I hate […]
I thought I’d ordered six, but I was sweating so profusely when I was planting that it didn’t occur to me tgat I’d actually ordered two lots of six until I looked in my eBay history. Only a couple have even signs of leaves, but I’m hopeful. I was going to plant them over by […]
Zinnia that we planted on Monday is up! Along the fence line: In the stead of stupid, lazy branching sunflowers: Cardinal climber along the fence line, too! No news yet from runner bean or phlox, but I’m hopeful. First cosmos of 2014 will be a deep pink ‘Sensation’. Persimmon coming along. The other one still […]
I’m not 100% certain, but I think one of my poor, abused pawpaw trees might still be alive! So far, so good for pipevine. Ninebark is looking good, if somewhat maple-y. Still small, but more green than when I planted it!
No dirt work today; all I did was plant the three tomatoes, and add some zinnia (leftover ‘Lilliput’ to the spots where wild-type sunflower couldn’t be arsed to grow. That’s my last try with that stuff because it never grows worth a good goddamn. Anyway… Heirloom tomatoes grown right from seed by C. Three varieties: […]
Otherwise known as, “Holy shit, what a lot of dirt!” Dirt delivery on Friday morning did not go as planned; the fuel pump went out on Dirt Guy #1’s truck, and P. wasn’t convinced it would be fixed by Saturday, or at least not early enough, so he got Dirt Guy #2 to deliver Friday […]
They’re back from spring training camp, and although two of them don’t look so well, the other thirty-two look great! Dirt is being delivered on Friday morning (I’ll be home–long weekend), and bags of Miracle Grow garden soil are stacked on the patio to go on top. Cardinal climber and scarlet runner bean seeds at […]
Standing cypress broke ground! Practically microscopic hardy fuchsia seedlings still alive. Not growing much, but alive. Got a second Bird of Paradise in the same cup!
I weeded the milkweed and a bit more in the Honeysuckle Horseshoe, but then I found a Scudderia nymph and had to take pictures. Canon, not phone, and not yet off the camera. I’ll add them later. In great news, one of my persimmon trees is still alive. Dunno about the other, or the pawpaw, […]