Posts Tagged Garden Update
Shaking Off Frustrations
A garden can lift you up or break you down, and this year, our garden has succeeded at doing both.
Already Outdated
I water, examine, assess, and enjoy my garden daily, and yet it wasn’t until I started editing these photos snapped two weeks ago that I realized how much had changed in a short amount of time.
A New Year, A More Measured Approach
I walked into the house this morning and casually mentioned to Justin that everything in the garden was “looking good...so far”.
A July Garden in June
Given the heat of 2015, our yard and garden is rapidly approaching end of July appearances, for better and for worse.
Informative Observations
When people ask me what I’ve done in 2015, my answers might sound less than adventurous to you (running and gardening), but the details in each of those “tasks” are greater, and more complicated, than those two words.
Ahead of Schedule
The calendar says early April, but garden activity has felt three weeks ahead of the actual date for all of 2015.
Garden Planning
In my two-ish seasons of planting last year, I never found a balance between the whimsical and poetic dreams of my aspirational garden, and the realities of planning and structure.
One Cuttlefish Hoe to Rule Them All
It’s bizarre how we wrap tasks in an artificial scaffolding of lists and timelines, knowing that, inevitably, a surprising gust of wind will blow through, crumbling your weak scaffolding as you scramble to rearrange timelines and to-dos.
Optimism and Possibilities
June in the garden: a time when anxious planning transforms into fleeting optimism.
The Garden Takes Care of Itself
The past few days aside, May and early June felt like summer in the Pacific Northwest.
Growing Season, Already?
After a long winter hiatus, when I first picked up the little green notebook in which I record gardening notes, I flipped to see when the last entry was.
Mimosa Tree Woes
As July turned to August, I didn't share a garden update because much remained the same.
Complacency Forgiven
June was a productive month for our 4x4 garden, the multiple container plants scattered about our driveway, and the flowers in both the front and back yards.
Midnight Gardening with “Ladies in Red”
The last time I wrote about gardening and general backyard maintenance, I was still cleaning things up and progress inched along.
Dandelions, Slugs, and Buried Yard Tools
To me, one of the most exciting parts of home rentership, aside from doing laundry whenever I want and not hearing the neighbor's conversations, is having a yard.