After you finish that seed list, make notes about which ones should be soaked or surface scratched to help germination. You forgot about that with a lot of seeds last year, and the year after too.
Category: Behind the Scenes
The other bits that help the garden grow.
Weather never ceases to amaze me.
Temperatures climbed to near 50°F today, and we’ve had rain fairly steady since last night. Continue reading “Weather never ceases to amaze me.”
Anyone who thinks gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year; for gardening begins in January with the dream.
— Josephine Nuese Continue reading “When does a garden begin?”
When does a garden begin?
Clouds foiled the lunar view…
We made an attempt to watch the lunar eclipse tonight, as there was a break in the clouds. Continue reading “Clouds foiled the lunar view…”
Late night reading, away from the weather.
I fell down an internet rabbit hole tonight, browsing way too many old house garden pages. Continue reading “Late night reading, away from the weather.”
Making our 2019 seed list–part 1
One thing I did not want to be late about again this year was ordering seeds. Despite the recent brain fog from the winter bug, I’m still determined in being better on this matter. Continue reading “Making our 2019 seed list–part 1”
What was found, then lost again, is again found.
Fair Warning: Brain is foggy, writing is more rambly than usual.
As I’ve been fighting whatever variant of winter bug my partner brought home from work, I have fallen to not getting much of anything done at all.
Continue reading “What was found, then lost again, is again found.”
Of cats and butterflies.
On one news aggregate site I haunt, there was a link yesterday that led me to an older article about the devastatingly low count of Monarchs in California last year. Continue reading “Of cats and butterflies.”
It really is frozen.
Even though my brain knows that the temperatures have hovered mostly around freezing of late, I still found myself surprised when I tried to stick a plastic plant label that had come up back into the ground near the plant it belonged to, and failed. Continue reading “It really is frozen.”