Rain Used To Make Me A Little Sad
It’s almost 3am and I can hear the rain coming down hard outside my cracked open windows… I’m smiling because my gardens are going to be beautiful this year! 🙂
Month: April 2010
Planting the Vegetable Garden With A Spacing Grid
One Vegetable Garden Planted, Three To Go! So far, only one of the four planned vegetable garden beds have the railroad tie borders around them due to dh’s hectic retail schedule. Since one of them was ready to go, I got busy planting it today. This veg bed, bed D, already had some garlic growing … Read more
Glad I Made a Garden Plan
I’m usually the kind of person to start a project with a rough idea of how I’d like it to turn out. Often, I’ve been known to wing it. Hell, I describe myself as someone who usually flies by the seat of my pants and makes it by the skin of my teeth. Maybe gardening … Read more
Compost Enclosures: What Worked and What Didn’t Work
In the fall I tried to clean up my compost operation that was taking over a corner of my back yard. The original pile was semi-enclosed with a short wall of border bricks. It was messy and I got sick of looking at it after a while. I spread all my finished compost as mulch … Read more
My Kingdom For More Mulch!
My parents graciously passed along 3 bags containing 3 cubic ft. each of cedar mulch they purchased last year and didn’t need. (Didn’t NEED? Hard to imagine.) Today the kids and I spread this free shredded wood around some of my new plants and trees. I’ll need about 4 or 6 more bags to cover … Read more
Extended Forecast – April, week 1, 2010
For Beachwood, NJ 08722 Tonight – 4/2/2010 – Lo: 46°Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Saturday – 4/3/2010 – Hi: 66°Sunny. Patchy fog in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Lo: 48°Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper … Read more