Well, One of My Blogs…

Because I like to watch the progress, here is what my yard looks like now: And two years ago: Also for comparison–then (last year) and now:    

I just found a photo on my phone from the greenhouse reorganization day…. I moved a pot, and underneath was THIS: I was not expecting to see a big, squishy thing hanging out in the greenhouse, and I totally froke out and ran.  Eventually, he disappeared, and I did not investigate. Bleah.

My little greenhouse is FULL UP. The weather is warming up (even though it is raining again today.  Boo.), so I was able to haul out a lot of the potted plants that had spent the winter inside.  For now, the citrus and potato buckets are still inside.  I also moved all of the tomatoes [...]

Man, I love my little greenhouse.  It is jam packed with seedlings in there.  I was out there this morning, thinking about doing some transplanting, but it was too cold.  I transplanted just a few things that were completely bursting out of their containers, and am going to make a second attempt at it this [...]

My kale is about done.  I’m letting it flower, and hoping I might be able to save a few seeds.  That makes it even more Dr. Seuss looking than it has been, which is saying a lot. I can’t really explain that.  I also can’t explain the celery behind the kale.  It grows horizontally instead [...]

These crazy sunflowers actually bloomed!  In March!  November-ish, they all just started growing from seeds that fell from the old sunflowers, and I was sure that that would die, so I left them alone.   But they did not die.  They grew throughout the occasionally freezing temperatures of winter, and then bloomed.  At the Beekeeper Symposium, [...]

Isn’t this fancy? My neighbors on either side of me have giant, old oak trees, and frankly, the best stuff falls out of them.  I get chunks of moss, acorns, leaves, and lately, I’ve been getting a lot of lichen-ey branches dropping into my yard.