LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
It is true that a lot has happened over the past few years. One of them was that we moved to a new house. New house meant new gardens. I was sad to leave behind my perennials (though we know the new owners and they graciously let me dig a few things up!) and the…
Spring came early this year. Then it quickly faded back into winter — jumping to summer for a couple days and then back to winter. Kind of feels like the changing of the seasons in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. At any rate, I’ve been trying to get outdoors whenever the weather decides it…
Now that it’s nearing the end of August, I suppose it’s time for a 2015 garden update. One of the things I’ve learned to love about gardening is how each year is so different. The first few years, I found this very frustrating: what grew well one year didn’t grow well the next. However, I’ve…
Garden 2014 I’ve been a slacker on the garden blog this year. Or, perhaps on the blog in general. But fear not: the 2014 garden update has arrived. Overall, it has been a good garden year. I started my tomato and pepper seeds in early March indoors. I did a little test to see if…
My best Brandywine tomato of the year – just harvested! Now that it’s fall, I feel like my garden should be winding down; but, in fact, I have quite a bit still coming in. In part, this is due to the fact that my tomatoes did not begin to ripen until very late in the…
I learned something interesting about carrots the other day. Apparently, they are biennial plants, which are only supposed to flower every other year. So, carrot seeds that you buy for your garden should not grow into flowering plants. I found this fact particularly interesting since I planted carrots for the first time last year, and…
I’m growing chipmunks now!! Gardening is hard. Every year I am learning new things, but it also seems that each year presents new challenges. My first year of gardening, the bunnies ate all of my peas. So, we put up a fence, and I had not seen the bunnies back until this year. The fence…
Somebody keeps eating my corn; I don’t think I’ll be getting any this year.. It’s happening again. Someone is snacking in my garden. Snacking on tender green shoots that should be growing into corn, beans and sunflowers; snacking on the tops of carrots; snacking on peas; and even snacking on a potato plant. I’ve been…
Really, I enjoy gardening because I like playing in the dirt! I think I have a problem. In my desperate attempt to get things to grow in my garden and with my love for all things green and flowery, I think I have become a plant hoarder. Let me back up just a bit. When…
It’s high time for a gardening update! I had a very late start to my garden this year, due to the unusually long winter that we experienced here in Michigan. I started some of my seeds indoors in March, but wasn’t able to plant my “early spring” seeds outside until April 21st (I really need…