Hi everyone! This is a tired and productive bumble bee with some pollen coated legs taking a rest after pollinating my luscious strawberries! But since I was a dingus and forgot a couple weeks of open threads, I'm opening up one now. What's new with you? What are you growing, or seeing bloom in your … Continue reading Weekend Open Thread 4/11/20-4/12/20
So last year I planted an anise hyssop or agastache in my shade herb bed. Despite the fact that it's more of a full sun herb/flower, the thing went crazy last year, and then died back. But I know the flower agastache is a perennial, so I'd been waiting this spring to see if it … Continue reading Rehoming the anise hyssop
Somethings in the garden are not happy- RIP cucumbers. Other things like my little berry pots are very happy. The Quinalts are probably the least happy, but they're doing fine. Lots of flowers, little developing berries- it's all good. The Alpines however are living it up. The red berry up top isn't quite ripe but … Continue reading Strawberry fields forever
Was gonna title this April showers, but this wasn't an April shower, it was an April Deluge. Yesterday we had scattered showers, so I didn't take in anything or cover anything I just shrugged and took the day off. But today, the heavens opened. Which is kind of a problem for the newly potted tomato. … Continue reading April downpours aka what’s next? Locusts?
This- was the sun herb bed in the before times. A mess. Besides the weeds surrounding it, it was flush with weeds inside it. It was a mess. One interesting fellow had returned- the immortal apple mint. This is a plant I put in an old bed 10 years ago- the bed is gone, the … Continue reading April planting, part 2
The Neanderthal Gardens 