Hello Old Friends. It's been an awful long while! To be totally honest with you, this growing season I've found the garden to be an absolute albatross. This has been a real struggle for me- as one can imagine- the garden has historically been a place of calmness, joy, and a way to relieve stress.… Continue reading On Breaks and Clarity.
Apologies for my absence... we've had a lot going on recently and we've been away/busy/otherwise engaged leaving time for gardening, but little time for blogging about it. In any event, while it is only mid-June, there have already been plenty of new lessons to be learned so I'll share them with you. If at first… Continue reading This Year’s Garden Lessons (so far…).
I go back and forth about the notion of a low-maintenance garden and The Middle Sized-Garden's recent post about it rekindled the internal debate. Is it really a realistic goal for a natural space- even when planned and tended to by humans- to be low-maintenance? Should it be? She mentioned some things that I think… Continue reading Low-Maintenance: Myth or Reality?
The good news is that we finally got some cooler weather paired with more rain. The good soaking in kind. The bad news is (as ever) that the weeds are as thrilled with the conditions as the 'real' plants are. The crabgrass is. A. Nightmare. All the other weeds are manageable, but holy crapstacks. WHERE… Continue reading Weeds, weeds, weeds.
In my mind, I'm a very Zen sort of gardener. If a plant doesn't thrive, I don't try again. I don't fight the good fight to get something to grow. I don't amend my flower beds. I don't irrigate. I'm very 'fend for yourself' once something is planted and watered in. Let Nature take its… Continue reading Fight the Good Fight or Wave the White Flag?
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