Garden Journal

These always feel like such a gift.

The last few weeks have been extra- harried, and I haven’t been able to get out into the garden, but I finally made it out there yesterday. At least one of my late-planted dahlias is actually blooming — I tried planting dahlias in the parkway for the first time, which was clearly a good choice

The garden has totally gotten away from me this year — I didn’t get my mulch down in May, made a partial effort in late June / early July, and now much of my yard is a wasteland of weeds, only somewhat camouflaged by all the blooming perennials (thank all the gods for them). I

More garden experiments. In the central triangle bed, I threw in some mesclun lettuce seeds (which seem to have mostly disappeared), and two kinds of kale (why, I’m not sure, we don’t even eat kale that often) — Redbor F1 and Feathered Frills. They both seem to be coming up fine, but again, I’m not

So, I tried something new, growing broccoli rabe, and I basically threw the seeds in the soil and ignored them, occasionally watering when it was really hot and dry. I vaguely meant to go thin them at some point, but I did not actually do so. So at this point, advice? Should I thin these,

So, here are two beautiful peaches off our tree. Nice, right? But here’s the thing — there’s only 1 left on the tree. Last year this time, the same tree gave us about a 100 peaches. This year, 3. Oh, wait, 4 — there was one that a cheeky squirrel got. I have no idea