Garden
Garden Report - Move over pink
June 28, 2008
The soft and somewhat overwhelming pinks of the front flower bed have gone bye now. When we bought our house I inherited peonies and rhododendron that put on a big beautiful show each June. But by the end of the month I'm ready to say adios to pink. June is ...
Lazy (?) Summer Days
June 26, 2008
I'm not sure exactly when the summer steam roll train started this year. Probably sometime in February when I began to fantasize about raised beds, weekly pick-ups at the farm, fresh picked berries, wearing sundresses and going to the beach. I'm officially five days into summer and pretty dog tired ...
Garden Report - Mid June
June 19, 2008
Summer hasn't even officially begun and I already feel it's half over - what's that all about?? Must be all the time I've already spent in the garden. Thankfully the first intense part of the vegetable garden work is done. Just in time for the start of berry picking (we'll ...
The view around here
June 10, 2008
This morning looked like this. Before the day got really hot, 90F in early June in Maine is kind of ridiculous. Thankfully we had made plans to visit our good friends and so spent the hottest part of the day at their town beach, a block from their house. Maine ...
Garden Report - almost there
June 6, 2008
Four down, 2 more to go. Tonight we planted the Jacob's Cattle bush beans, Soldier pole beans, corn and decorative gourds. The gourds were volunteer seedlings from the compost heap. The beans will be harvested and eaten as dried beans. We eat A LOT of dried beans and I'm curious ...
