A Walk with Friends

The trees are buzzing with the bees filling their pollen baskets. Our hill trail crosses with someone else’s trail. And the frogs have eggs in the pond. ...my alone but not alone walk.

Hillside Revisited

Day count is at 3 for hillside blackberry clearing (part of it in the left side in the photo). We trimmed up a path to keep the hillside accessible.  It has been years since we did much on the hill.  On non-rainy days, hiking around on the hill will be a nice way to stretch my legs. Glad to see the cherry tree blossoms are not too discouraged by the beatings of rain and hail in the past two weeks.   

See this link to 2006 hillside
See this link for plannings

Opening Day of Garden Season

Easy start to the garden for the year - added coffee bags to the garden and 125 in the barn for future use.  And found a hellebore blooming in the former garden area. 

A Welcome 2020 New Year

A nice start to the new year, dreaming about what will grow!

Garden Today

If you have rocks, stack them!
...and other 2018 new garden views.

Flashback Sunflower

Trying out a blog post from phone.  Do you blog by phone  successfully ?  This really isn’t working well right now!

New Garden Beds

These 2018 garden beds are in the old pumpkin patch adjacent to the main garden. Later this year, we may add similar beds in the area that had been the main garden in the past. 

I am really liking having the defined edges and the ability to level the soil within the bed.  Lots and lots of rocks have come out of the four beds!  They are all planted now, except one corner which will get sunflower seeds planted soon.

2018 Vegetables & Friends List

Finally, a garden again and four new garden boxes for it.

Neighbors gifted these gourd and pumpkin seedlings which motivated me to grow again:
Pumpkin - Rouge Vif d'Etampes
Pumpkin - small decorative
Gourd 1 - yellow w/green & orange stripes
Gourd 2 - orange knobby
Gourd 3 - yellow with orange stripes, hooked neck
Gourd 5 - small orange round pumpkin

Other additions:
Butternut squash (82 days)
Swiss Chard - Bright Lights
Lettuce- Bibb Butterhead
Lettuce - Red Sails
Tomato - Cupid Grape   69-80 days
Zucchini
Radish -   (seeds)
Radish -   (seeds)

Flowers:
Marigold Durango Bolero
Salvia Strata blue
Salvia Lady in Red
Marigold seeds
Sunflower seeds
Cosmos seeds
Calendula seeds

Herbs:
Chives
Purpurescens Sage (prune to 6" in early spring) fragrant and cooking

Blooms and Storms

Cherry trees, today, in between the crazy wind and rain:

 

Traveling Rhubarb

The rhubarb has moved from the garden to the hedgerow!  I cannot blame it, considering the state of the garden spot.   A little progress was made last weekend, between rains, so there is hope for garden re-invention.