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A Little Color for the Coming Fall
Bee and butterfly garden Sunflower Knockout rose Coreopsis Butterfly on brick Butterfly on garlic chive blossom French Marigolds
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Bee and Butterfly Garden Revamp
Our fenced kitchen garden was designed with pollinators in mind. In the southeastern corner, there is a bee and butterfly garden planted with Liatra Spicata, purple Echinacea, red gladiolas and daffodils (primarily for me), and several other potted perennial flowers I picked up during the summer. The Kniphofia (Traffic Lights) didn’t blossom this summer, but I think they did at least grow plants. The real problem with the bee and butterfly garden is that its location in the corner makes…
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How Captain Duct Tape Single-sidedly Took Down a Cell of Squash Bugs
Warning: What you are about to see here may be visually disturbing. Let the pictures do the talking.
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Drainage – My garden Cesspool.
I’m not sure if it was the mucky shplucky smell, the dead zone, the disease on my tomatoes or the lake under the bean tunnel that give it away. But it has become very apparent that the garden has drainage issues. On our sloped lot, most of the runoff cuts around the south side of the house through the garden before making it down to the street and eventually into the Neuse River. The garden sits in a low spot…
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Gone Fishin’
We took the boys to Tennessee for Labor Day weekend to visit my family. We fished, played, cooked, feasted and hit the road right after the start of the biggest day long rainfall Chattanooga has ever seen.
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Sights and Sounds of the Morning
For several hours each morning, it feels like fall. Today while the Man-child was sleeping, the Baby and I stepped outside in the cool air and took a brief walk around the garden, where I plucked several green beans and red okra and felt dew under my feet. He old bamboo sticks that once stood next to pepper plants. The birdhouse gourds and cucumbers in the tunnel are continuing to set fruit and the Melondome shows promise of late season…
