Category: Behind the Scenes

The other bits that help the garden grow.

Weekly Site Changes: August 7th-August 13th, 2020

As with so many things in life, even when you’re working on a labor of love, what you wish you could make time for…you often cannot.

The end of July into August was a bit busy.  I did manage some minor updates but never got around to posting the weekly.  Mea Culpa.  The changes were on Critters and 2020 Plantings, so skipping last week’s notes wasn’t a huge loss for record keeping to me. Continue reading “Weekly Site Changes: August 7th-August 13th, 2020” →

Weekly Site Changes: July 24th-July 30th, 2020

Hoo boys, this year…  Here’s another attempt at getting this rolling forward again.  Hopefully in the coming weeks I’ll be able to get more catch up done than I have in the last month and change.

  • Updated 2020 Plantings Page as needed.
  • Updated Critters Page when time allowed me to input more info.
  • Updated the “What I’m planting” side widget as needed.

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Behold the wild garage bed in 2017!
Posted in Conservation, Indoor Musings

Pondering a notion on natives and non.

Posted on by Lily

So the property already had some non native plants mixed in with the “locals” here before we bought it, and I have since added some as well through both blissful ignorance and two deliberately foreknown sentimental based acquisitions.  While making tea tonight, I had an idea…what if I made labels for all the plants in the front yard designating which is which? Continue reading “Pondering a notion on natives and non.” →

Weekly Site Changes: May 22-28, 2020

Another week, another report.  Since I started prepping the next week’s draft once the current week goes up, that really seems to help keep the ball rolling.  *cringes at tempting fate after writing that*

  • Updated 2020 Plantings Page as needed.
  • Also realized I asked folks to add comments or queries on the 2020 Planting Page, but had neglected to turn on comments for that Page.  Fixed that.
  • Updated “what I’m planting soon” widget as things progressed.
  • Added prior unposted Office Window Views for:  May 23, 2018, July 22, 2018, June 1, 2019, June 22, 2019.
  • Found a handful of blank dated templates for daily garden journaling, but only one had anything actually written besides the date, Garden Growth–19th May, 2019.

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Weekly Site Changes: May 15-21, 2020

It feels like the clock is ticking, and so soon after the last snow, now we’re hitting 70s° F almost like clockworks, though the nights are still unevenly cool.  Lots of catch up going on the spring clean up front.

  • Added a few more animals to the Critters page.
  • Updated the 2020 Plantings page as needed.
  • Updated the “What I’m planting soon” side widget as needed.
  • Finally finished a post I started earlier this year on Latin name significance.

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