Mums and asters added, to brighten the incoming autumn garden. I never used to like mums, because the yellow ones were already so close to brown, and I found them unutterably sad. But then I learned about white and pink mums, and blue and purple asters. When you mix those together with dahlia, autumn sedum, […]
Added some hardy mums, which I’m hoping will come back next year (the garden store said plant before September 15 if you want them to come back, and when they grow green in June, cut them back hard, so they’ll bloom in the fall). The various sedum are starting to flower, and the roses are
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The problem with planting lots of veggies for the first time is that it’s really easy to lose track of what they all are, which also makes it harder to figure out when to pick them. (Anand is also VERY eager to pick things, which adds to the challenge.) The tomatoes I know, but I
Perhaps someone should have warned me to segregate the squash. Admittedly, if I had actually paid any attention to the vegetable garden in the last two months, everything might not have grown together in such mad exuberance, but the question is, how do I extricate the other vegetables now? I may have to rely on
Cooked our overgrown summer squash in two recipes. On suggestions from others, I sliced it thin, battered and fried it, seasoning with salt and pepper right after frying. That was tasty, but I find the battering-frying process tedious, and am not likely to do that again. Esp. since Anand liked the result, but Kavya still
Late summer: Joe Pye weed, yarrow, Limelight hydrangea. It’s not the showiest bouquet, esp. since the yarrow and JP weed are fading, but in my defense, I was out of town last week, so I couldn’t catch them while they were hot. Also, it still smells great, and has a certain wistful end-of-summer quality to
This house we’re visiting has a plethora of bird feeders, and for the last two hours, I’ve been sitting and working on a shaded porch, watching the birds go nuts, listening to their songs. I can’t name them all, but there are blue one and bright yellow ones and red-headed ones along with lots of
I had originally planted roses here, when we first moved in, but they struggled for lack of sun — bad planning on my part! I moved the roses and put in dwarf hydrangeas (shouldn’t get more than 2-3 feet around), alternating with the boxwood (which I’m planning to prune into somewhat neater round balls). Love
I was actually in the middle of a phone conference when I noticed these weird neon chartreuse *things* in my plant pot, and for a moment, I thought the children had stuck outdoor chalk in there, but no — they’re mushrooms. It’s been very humid and warm here, which I suspect are prime mushroom-growing conditions.
