I sat down to write about my garden, but what I ended up with was something very different.
In the garden: It’s coming…
Tag: the garden
In the Garden: Eating My Way Through the Vegetables, Continued Patio Adventures
Oh, August. You were mostly hot and dry and the lawn sizzled up to a crisp, with the last remnants of green grass under the treeline finally giving up the ghost with a desperate, sad sort of sigh. A few flowers gamely kept on, things in the vegetable garden got bigger, and other flowers started […]
In the Garden: Veggies! (And, Like, Other Stuff Too)
The endless wet of March gave way to mostly sunny days in April, which made it increasingly hard to stay inside and work, let me tell you. Fortunately there was lots to do in the garden, including repeatedly mowing the lawn to keep the grass from exploding, weeding, and lolling among the flowerbeds. Fortunately, I […]
In the Garden: Bulbous. And Then Frozen.
I was originally planning to write a cheerful post about all the things blooming in February, and the garden starting to come to life. I took a bunch of pictures. And then, on the night of the 25th, we had a hard frost, and things looked grim indeed, especially when it repeated itself on the […]
Planning the Garden
The days are starting to lengthen and I am reminded that eventually it will stop being extremely cold and wet and it will start being warm and moist, ideal conditions for gardening, so I’m starting to do some serious garden planning groundwork. Unlike at the old house, where I just kind of randomly tossed shit […]
The Jasmine Project: Fair Weather Friends
Watching jasmine grow is considerably more exciting than watching paint dry, right? For those unfamiliar with it, I started the jasmine project when I put in several jasmine vines last summer, to track their growth. The goal is to eventually cover the fence between the neighbour’s house and mine so we don’t have to look […]
The Jasmine Project: Fall Is In the Air
It’s finally starting to feel like fall, which primarily means that it’s sunny and warm, and an excellent time of year to be spending lots of time outdoors. Or, if you are like me, looking wistfully outdoors and wishing you could be there instead of hunched over a screen. It also means that the leaves […]
The Jasmine Project: Parts of a Larger Whole
I am pleased to report that the garden appears to be recovering from last month’s parching, showing that you can’t keep a good garden down. I am trying to be better about remembering to water before everything starts gasping for water. It’s been overcast, but still dry, the last few days, so it’s hard to […]
The Jasmine Project: I Parched the Garden
So, something sort of bad happened to the garden last month. I got very busy and distracted and it got very hot and I sort of didn’t water for several days and things got very unhappy. I took these pictures at the height of the careless-gardener-induced drought. Things are perking up now since I started […]
The Jasmine Project: Three Years In the Hobbit House
I just marked the end of my third year in my house (how time flies). The garden has definitely come a long way from the pile of weeds it was when I moved in, in part I think because it’s so tiny; it’s easy to garden extravagantly and extensively when your garden is approximately the […]