Garden update
Author Archives: carpelibrum
Bloom day
Dwarf shasta daisy. Rainbow chard glowing in the evening light. Coreopsis ( of the domesticated variety). I cut back my salvia after it bloomed and got a repeat performance! Russian Sage with my constant companion, the grasshopper (or cricket? I don’t know. This is why I am getting a guide book from the library). Zinnia! […]
Odds and Ends
Here are some strange mushrooms that appeared overnight in our gravel driveway last month during our week of rain. They have held up surprisingly well through our hot weather and are just starting to shrivel. They look a lot like puffballs! Here is what my salads have been looking like. I really need to […]
Bulbils
Bulbils, the small buds on the tips of the onion leaves have not only formed, they are beginning to flower! The bulbils send out shoots, their weight causing the onion stalks to bend. Soon the bulbils will reach the dirt, root and form new onions. I’ve got to start figuring out recipes to use these […]
Potted and Planted
I thought that this year I would have fewer pots on the deck as I would be able to put more of the plants in the ground. I did remove more than several pots in the pursuit of making my garden, but somehow the quantity seems completely unchanged! I do have to fess up and […]
Blooms in the Garden
Zinnias! Purple penstemons My “Knock Out Rose” bought on sale and suffered horribly in the frosty months before I put it in the ground as the cold burned leaves attest. Still it is blooming and I hope it will be a tough beauty. A double flowered tomato bloom! I’d never seen that before!
Irrigation and flowers
One of the facts of country life is well water. The city and the county don’t run water out to us. We supply it ourselves from ground water. Unfortunately for us, the people who lived here before us bought a very small water tank which means that in the summer time we can run through […]
Salad Quest
I have been trying to eat more salad lately (Haven’t we all?) and to encourage myself in this quest I have been trying to sow lettuce seeds of all types continuously because not only is home ground salad far more delicious than store bought I am far more likely to eat it more regularly because […]
Wild flowers
Across the road from our house, there is a woodlands. I don’t know who lives there-if anyone lives there. The deer hide between the trees, moving through the shade. It is a refuge of many creatures I suspect. And it is the home of many wildflowers. These are our native lupins. Much smaller than the […]
Frog Frog!
We have had a lot of rain recently. I felt a bit of whiplash from going from frantically running around watering wilted plants as soon as I got home from work to having to empty out pots so that my plants don’t drown (some of my pots don’t have drainage holes). Today I finally got […]
Hands in the Dirt, Head in the Clouds 