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Continue reading →: Too Late for Autumn Salad?It was a hot summer. So I delayed starting my autumn lettuce salad. But, to be honest, that was not my only excuse for planting my Autumn lettuce late. I just was too busy with other tasks. Was it too late? I don’t know, but my lettuce so far looks…
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Continue reading →: My New Toy: A Fiskars XA23 versus a Rose BrambleI got a new tool recently to help me clear overgrown brush on our properties.
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Continue reading →: Great Year for LettuceIt may be a bad year for tomatoes, but it has been a great year for lettuce. I am still harvesting lettuce I planted this spring. And it is even getting near the time to start sowing my fall lettuce seeds!
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Continue reading →: Bad Year for Tomatoes?This has been an usual year. The weather especially. A very long, cold spring, then a very short hot period in June, and now again a cool period in July. Meanwhile some of my indeterminate tomatoes as of today: Those would be great photos of tomatoes…. on June 16th. But…
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Continue reading →: Salad Garden UpdateIt has been a cool spring. So the salad is thriving. Have been harvesting outer leaves for weeks now. Just some photos.
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Continue reading →: Removing a Wind Blown TreeRecent storms blew over a dead tree by our property. I have eyed this tree for some time, wondering if I should trim it for safety reasons, as many branches were over our property and they were a safety risk. The property owners of this tree are one of the…
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Continue reading →: Pricking Salad – UpdateIn March I post about pricking my salad seedlings out of their seed tray and putting them into individual cells to grow into starters. This is how the salad starters then looked in April just before planting: And these are the some of the results so far in the garden:…
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Continue reading →: WisteriaWe have a Wisteria plant by the entrance gate to our house terrace (maybe some would call that a front porch). I think the bloom the Wisteria had this year was quite lovely. It also attracted a lot of bees. Mostly solitary bee species. So I it helped the bee…






