Carrots: A Disappointment
After weeks of watering and careful tending, here’s the result. Not much, really. They didn’t even taste that great–somewhat bitter. Not sure what happened. Planted too early? Not enough sun?
Archive for the ‘gardening’ Category
Sad Bean Plants and a Photo Test
I came home from training this evening and found the bean plants in a sad state. Despite watering, they look terrible. Are the pots too small? If you look closely you can see the tiny bean pods hanging down. The photo on the left was taken in Auto. The photo on the right was taken [...]
Garden Update
Garden planted on April 4, 2010. Here’s the progress. How exciting! Wildflowers started to show on April 11, 2010 Look at those carrots on April 29 Here comes the lettuce, April 29
Raised Garden (Part 2)
W finished the frame yesterday, and we filled it with some soil. W got some more soil today, and LM and I did the planting: carrots, lettuce, basil, oregano, and daisies. We had a great time. Later in the day, I asked LM what his favorite part of the day was, and he said, “planting [...]
Raised Garden (Part 1)
How exciting; we got the raised bed for the garden made today!
Oh, I love Fall
Sitting on my back patio on one of the most gorgeous fall days. Lucky, lucky me. Eighty daffodil bulbs to plant–11 in the ground, 69 to go.
Gardening Meets Web 2.0
I love to garden. There is something extremely satisfying about having your hands in the Earth and watching plants grow. I have to admit though that I find our current yard a bit overwhelming. We have about 3 acres–two in the back are heavily wooded, and we can’t do much with that due to HOA [...]
