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Garden Update
Over the past few weeks I have worked old garden beds, erected domes for sugar snap peas and relocated hoards of rudbekia volunteers to other areas of the yard. I took a trip out to Home Depot and picked up several bags of organic garden soil that were on clearance, a big block of peat moss and a jug of fish emulsion for the garlic and onions. With the soil now rich and fluffy, limed and smoothed over, it is…
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Hand Building Project: Lace Imprint Casserole
One of the simplest and most rewarding clay pieces I make is a lace imprint casserole dish. This particular piece is eventually headed to my brother. Steps to creating a lace imprint casserole dish: I took a Pyrex style glass casserole dish and created a plaster mold from it. Be prepared that due to shrinking in the kiln, the piece you end up creating from a plaster mold will be smaller than the original piece it is cast…
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Super Sow Sunday 2017 #SuperSowSunday
I was looking at which of my blog posts were getting visits this week, and “Super Sow Sunday” was getting some hits. I glanced at the date and realized, of course! The Super Bowl is next weekend. I don’t really get into football, and a few years ago the #Gardenchat Twitter community (started by Bren Haas) started the hashtag #SuperSowSunday to talk about starting seeds and gardening on Super Bowl Sunday. I haven’t heard any chatter about it this year, but in…
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Update on the Garden
January in Raleigh is so strange. We’ve had icy snow, and we’ve had 70 degree days. I’d like to think it’s good for the soul to have days in the middle of winter where you can work outside in short sleeves. The only drawback is that it’s temping to plant too early. Our average last frost is April 4 or April 11, depending on which source you look at, so we are still a good 10 weeks of being able…
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Birdbath Ice Sickles and Snowbirds
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January Garden Pics
Well the 2017 January garden isn’t much to look at! Thanks to Amazon Prime (and several Pantry orders), we ended up with piles of cardboard over Christmas. I’m so exhausted by the weeds, that I decided it was finally time to give sheet composting… aka lasagna gardening… a go. That’s a fancy way of saying I broke down the boxes and spread them over the empty beds. I wish I were better at having a winter plan. Because I chucked…
