I put together a few flats of winter sown seeds today. Huckleberry, currants, gooseberry, Jack in the Pulpit and elderberry. I know the berries may take longer to germinate – maybe not even until next year – but I really hope it works. I’ll be patient and I won’t toss the containers if they don’t … Read more
I made a gardening wish list on Amazon. I am LOVING the universal Amazon wish list button. Oooooooh, I’m so excited. Sing it with me folks… “3 Lingonberries, 2 Beach Plum bushes and a self fertile Asian Pear Tree…..” Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and here’s hoping for a prolific and bountiful 2011!
This year I get to use a wood chipper to shred my leaves! I’m almost done with the whole back yard – it’s unbelievable how many garbage bags we had to use in the past to bag all of it and put all the leaves out to the curb. Now I’ll be able to put … Read more
I planted the Egyptian walking onions I got from Ebay today. I’ve had them in my fridge for a couple of weeks because they actually came the afternoon before we left for our Disney vacation. I hadn’t had the chance to plant until today, so I hope at least some of them come up. I … Read more
Today in my front yard garden I found tiny chamomile seedlings coming up from some mama plants that died back a couple of months ago (summer heat). The borage also reseeded like crazy and I have lovely baby borage plants all over the place. What do I do? Should I pot them and put them … Read more
The first week of November we took a family vacation away from the dropping temperatures here in NJ to visit the Mouse House down in Orlando. We had TONS of fun at Disney and, along with thousands of other tourists, enjoyed seeing Hogsmead at Universal for the first time. I did take the “Behind the … Read more
I Got My Mountain Laurel! I had moved the hydrangeas about a month ago and the lilac early in the spring. The lilies needed to be divided and as I said in a couple of previous posts, I really liked this spot for a dwarf mountain laurel. I dug up this whole foundation bed, mixed … Read more
I haven’t run out of steam yet. There is so much to do out there! It’s taken some time for me to get these beds dug out, but since it’s been raining here a lot lately, the ground is nice and soft and much easier to dig. These beds might look sparse and kind of … Read more
I gardened my butt off today Dug a new bed around the mailbox and moved some mums that didn’t belong where I had them before. I moved the no-bog northern cranberry to the bottom right of this picture and a couple of new low perennials to bottom left. This year it looks -eh- NEXT year … Read more
I cheated. The recipe I used was for refrigerator pickles – so no cooking or real canning involved. It was actually SUPER easy so I can’t wait to try them and see how they taste. I had 10 cucumbers and used about 6 of them to make these pickles tonight. I had to increase the … Read more