The critters are doing me in this summer. Something (chipmunks, I’m guessing) keeps digging up the larger seeds (beans, peas and the like) that I’ve planted. If they miss one and the seed actually grows into a plant, something else eats the plant. I guess I need to pull out …
Due to the weather (snow, rain, what-have-you), I haven’t been able to do much outside this month. It’s just as well, because we’ve been kind of busy. I did manage to make some headway in the garden last night. But, the rest of the yard is overrun with weeds and …
It was kind of nice this week, so I got a few things planted in the garden–namely, peas and onions. There’s a lot of work to do out there as the warm winter didn’t do much to kill off the weeds. But, I guess that’s going to have to wait …
It’s still only March and the gardening season is already off to a bad start. I was outside the other day and saw that most of my garlic didn’t make it through the winter. I’m actually blaming the mild temperatures on this one as they grew a lot more than …
I got a lime tree last spring. As it turns out, citrus trees are very temperamental. When I first got it, it shed a bunch of leaves, but this apparently is to be expected as the plants do not like change. Once the weather warmed up, I put it outside …