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Sunday Clay Day!
Those of you who follow Love Sown for my gardening posts may not know that I have another hobby. I started ceramics while I was in graduate school, and have thrown off and on as time allowed. This last hiatus was longer than expected, but I suppose nothing goes as expected when you throw babies into the mix. I have a pottery studio in our home garage, and as the weather cools and the garden slows down, pottery season is…
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Back at it.
The last time I threw a pot, my belly was wider around than the wheel, and I could hardly bend over to reach it. I never got to complete my brother’s wedding gift until this weekend. I spent the morning waxing and glazing with a NEW glaze. Kiln opening is coming soon!
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So you missed out on summer gardening…
If you missed out on gardening this summer, don’t sweat it. It was hot – very hot – and the mosquitoes are still biting. However, now you have two options. You can either go ahead and plant some fall crops, or you can skip that all together and begin to prepare your soil for the spring. If you are starting a new in-ground garden (not a raised bed), I suggest you wait to plant. Because our garden was brand-spankin-new this…
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When it Rains
Last night it rained and rained and rained. As the boys were working on their highly processed veggie straws for breakfast (I didn’t give it to them… Scooby snuck the back off the counter), I snuck outside with the camera. To my delight, there was no flooding. The new French tile drain is working like a charm, and this was a serious rainfall. Just look how the mulch on the path was washed downstream: A week ago these mystery seedlings…
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Changing Seasons in the Garden
This morning we visited Roanoke Park, a sliver of a playground between two roads in a quiet neighborhood. At one point my son Scooby exclaimed, “The leaves are falling!” We have been referencing the coming fall often, and if the seasons were left up to him, we’d skip right to winter and snow. It has been a long summer. I’m not sure what made it such. It could have been all the days that were pushing the 100 degree mark…
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Drainage – My garden Cesspool Part Two
Living in the city on 1/3 an acre of land in clay country, finding the ideal spot for a vegetable can be problematic at best. When we moved to our house back in 2007, our lot was covered in pines. Over the past three summers, our garden has been relocated and rebuilt no less than three times. Finally, this summer was THE summer when my gardening stars were to align. We’d removed 19 pines from our yard (don’t worry, there…
