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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
