Henrietta and the Strawberries
Strawberries are perverse plants. Last spring I built them a lovely mound. I amended the soil. I planted 4 varieties developed in the region, mixing ever-bearing and June bearing so we would have a big initial crop and then a constant small supply. I trimmed their runners, so the mother plants would focus on their [...]
Garden Clean-Up
I’m organizing my thoughts for the 2009 spring garden clean-up. I need to: photograph- I want before and after pics! rake and weed everything pick up trash and fallen branches start lamiastrum flats for keet start indoor seeds plant bulbs
Garden Plans
Gardening starts with seeds in the winter. Today, with all the snow, feels like the *perfect* day to be starting garden plans. Here’s what I’ve got: From the Home Depot sale on Saturday: veggies: Peas: Dark seeded early perfection Peas: Sugar Snap Mesclun Salad Greens flowers: Marigolds: scarlet starlet Cosmos: bright lights Oriental poppies: Pizzicato [...]
Distraction and follow-through
So the Macho Ficchu is done, save only the finishing and the FO pictures. Yay! The stupid thing is that I stayed up til 4:30 working on it. I was kept company the last couple hours by a good friend from Australia over Skype, or I never would have stayed up so stupid late. I [...]
Finishing
It used to be that I had a gajillion things going, and nothing got done. Pondering this morning, I realize I’ve kind of moved on from that phase, and I’m not quite sure how it happened. I somehow got the knack for finishing. Right now I have two knitting projects on the needles, and three [...]
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