everything yet nothing
I started my seeds! (61/365)
Foggy and wet day, bright daffodil. (62/365)
I was sick for days, finally took a sick day and … cleaned the sewing table. (63/365)
Ginger is so excited! (64/365)
My protector on a gorgeous spring afternoon. (65/365)
My seedlings are growing like mad! (66/365)
Claw hangs out on the deck while I weed. (67/365)
60°F temps followed by a front that dropped us below freezing, icing the pond over. (68/365)
The most fabulous color! (69/365)
I’m working on the vegetable garden plans. I’ve never had a vegetable garden in the PNW– only in the mid-Atlantic.
The weather here is quite different, so while N wants tomatoes and eggplant, I am tempering their likely demise with things that I know should do well here — greens, root vegetables, broccoli, beans, peas.
We’ll see how the season grows!
Last weekend, we cleaned up the leaves in the yard, knowing full well that we would have another leaf-raking episode in a couple of weeks.
Everything was fine until I was carrying the bags of leaves out to the street and slipped on a piece of wet wood. Ouch. I’m still suffering from the effects of that fall, but the yard is full of leaves again.
I guess I’ll be raking next weekend or so.
I have no clue what this bush/tree is. I love the color. It suddenly appeared one morning while I was out with the dogs and now I visit it every day.
My girl’s stub:
In stark contrast to her giraffe-like neck:
I fought and fought trying to get the photo I wanted. This isn’t it. I’ll try again.
There’s always dogs instead.
I had a fairly decent garden over the summer and when the weather started to slightly cool off, I decided I would try planting some fall vegetables. Spinach, mesclun, snow peas, sugar snap peas, and radishes.
The spinach does not seem to like the dirt or possibly got too much water. The peas never germinated [?! old seeds?]. The mesclun has grown fine, but I think I need to plant a lot more than I did (and I thought I planted too much).
As for the radishes, well… It’s November first and they are tiny. I think the problem with them is that I did not plant enough of them and I didn’t thin them out as much as I should have. That said, I ate that tiny one and it sure tasted good! I’ll try growing them again, maybe in spring next time.