Yesterday I went outside to walk around the patio, and before I knew it I was digging the sedum and peppermint out of the blue container bed. Sometimes that happens. An idea hits me and I’m on it. I like those plants in the spring, when they look new and healthy. But within a month…
We made pretty good use of our 30 minutes at Southwoods yesterday afternoon. I think we went a little over. I practically had to pull Kendra out of there. She wanted to look at everything. This garden nursery has a beautiful indoor shop too, where they sell everything from patio furniture to incense. There are…
I planted the seeds I ordered from Swallowtail Gardens on Monday evening. The zinnias have already germinated. I was sitting next to the French doors this morning eating a bowl of cereal. And I was amazed to see them already pushing through the soil in the pots. As you can see the wild morning glories…
I ended up watering my plants on the patio three times yesterday. Each time many of them were bone dry. That’s what you can run into with containers on a hot cement patio. My cucumber plant looks pretty bad. I don’t think it’s going to produce any more cucumbers. And the first two went bad…
This morning Charlie and I went outside and I took the opportunity to cut back the mint and lemon balm again. I have to do this every week or it gets out of bounds. The lemon balm is coming up in every crack in the cement it seems. That’s okay by me. Insects typically do…
The skies grew dark yesterday and it rained yet again. Seems the weather is angry right now. Its many moody changes are fast and erratic. However my garden welcomes the rain unless it gets to be too much. At least I’m not having to water the plants. Yesterday my daughter and Andrew came over after…