spring: week three
Posts Tagged as ‘my garden’
March 23, 2009
roots, shoots, & fruits
inspired by one of my favorite blogs, for me, for you’s ‘bits of my weekend’ monday posts, i am starting a new chapter of green thumb black dog…weekly photographic posts of what’s happening in my garden. so without further ado…
spring: week one
March 13, 2009
ann arbor, start your gardens…
two glorious things happened yesterday:
1. i spotted some daffodils breaking ground.
if it were up to me, i would shift our calendar a month and a half forward to celebrate new year’s day on march fifteenth. firstly, it’s my birthday, which is a day everyone should be celebrating anyway. secondly, spring is so much more in [...]
June 15, 2008
slug control for major tom(ato)
yesterday, i discovered nibbles out of the leaves on my brussel sprouts
and pole bean seedlings.
in the words of marge simpson, “hummmrgh.”
my diagnosis: slugs.
time to throw a party.
use shallow trays or saucers (tuna fish cans work really well) and bury the container to soil level. fill half-way with beer–the slugs in my garden like pbr, but [...]
June 2, 2008
you say potato, i say purple potato vine
the great thing about gardening is that there’s a niche for each…
(when i wrote that, i pronounced each to rhyme with niche–try it, it’s a giggler.)
especially at this time of year, i get a lot of questions about vegetable gardens. it’s funny how i can be so obsessed with flower gardening when there is a [...]
May 23, 2008
t.g.i.f.f….
thank goodness it’s frost-free!
though it still feels chilly, we are in the clear. i celebrated our last average frost-free date by planting my new, lovely herb bed, complete with eggplant and basil seedlings–which we’re promptly nipped by the cold nights this week. did i really hope to make the first eggplant pesto parmesan in [...]
April 21, 2008
plans, plans, plans
i have emerged from my imaginary world of garden catalogs to the place just before our frost- free go-ahead..i am saving newspapers to place on top of the lawn before i shovel on a compost- soil mix to make new gardens, stockpiling sturdy sticks to make trellises that will hold the black- seeded blue lake [...]
