October 25, 2018

a year of garden photos

May 4: The peas are a few inches high, cover crop of winter rye is tall in some beds, and winter beds have greens growing. May 11: I just turned under the winter rye, crabapples and tulips are in bloom. May 30: I just planted tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers. Alliums are blooming. June 18: Everything is growing, including the weeds in the paths. Those are asparagus fronds across the view in the foreground. August 24: Time for eating fresh vegetables! October 15: Beds with summer crops are cleared…

May 7, 2018

favorite sounds

As I go to bed, I am listening out the window to rain falling after a nice spring day in the garden. One of my favorite sounds. I can just imagine the plants growing and the soil drinking in the moisture.

April 8, 2018

The swallows have arrived!

April 1, 2018

March 31 is the full sap moon. I think sap ran early this year and is past by now in my area. But it’s a beautiful full blue moon to light up the Easter eve.

March 31, 2018

spring is here – a Good Friday

The peepers (little yellowish wetland frogs) started singing tonight! The song of spring. They don’t start up gradually. About 4 pm today, they started in full chorus, peeping away.

March 23, 2018

a little more spring ….

We only got a dusting of snow from the storm yesterday. Today the sun is shining. I was listening to the chickadees singing their spring song for the first time – dee-dee. We have a couple patches of bare ground in the yard. The warmest areas. And some spring blue bells are starting to inch up. The hellebore and snow drops are still covered, but it’s nice to feel a little bit of spring.

March 13, 2018

In stormy fashion Ends the dark season; The wind’s in a passion Out of all reason. Winter, so loth to go, Howls, spitting out the snow, Like froth of madness. ~Danske Dandridge, “The End of Winter,” 1902

March 13, 2018

Mom’s garden during ANOTHER March nor’easter

Arrgh! (Or as my sister wrote, AYFKM!!?) We’re in the middle of our third nor’easter in 10 days. The first was 2 inches of heavy rain with very high winds and lot’s of coastal flooding. The second was about 8 inches of very heavy wet snow that brought down lots of trees. This one is a blizzard that will give us 2 feet of fluffy snow with high winds. Some years, I’m out planting peas about now.

March 8, 2018

March nor’easter aftermath

Here’s the aftermath of the nor’easter we had last night. Eight inches of very heavy wet snow piled onto the trees and brought down many branches, including two huge ones from my beautiful Carolina silver bell that landed on my chicken coop. No damage to the coop but it took a lot of effort to clear and burn the fallen wood. I had built a lean-to over my new little lettuce tunnel and the plants look just fine underneath.

February 28, 2018

red-winged blackbirds

I just looked up when I’ve first heard red-winged blackbirds around here in the spring over the past few years. I think it shows a trend: 2018 February 25 2016 March 5 2015 March 27 2009 April 9

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

a year of garden photos

favorite sounds

spring is here – a Good Friday

a little more spring ….

Mom’s garden during ANOTHER March nor’easter

March nor’easter aftermath

red-winged blackbirds

My mom’s garden this week

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spring is here – a Good Friday

a little more spring ….

Mom’s garden during ANOTHER March nor’easter

March nor’easter aftermath

red-winged blackbirds

My mom’s garden this week

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Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Spinach!

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