animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

gardentastic

The beautiful weekend was filled with garden activities. All of the plants (an oak tree, two blueberry bushes and a bundle of myrtle) I purchased at the county plant sale are now in the dirt. Additionally, I did some weeding in the garden and planted onions. I’m a little behind …

it’s that time

The weather was finally decent enough to get outside for a couple of minutes the other evening. I removed the straw from the strawberry beds and the netting from the pond. I thought all of my fish died last fall, but there was one swimming around in there. I guess …

s.o.b.

What an unusually beautiful day for December. I took advantage of the nice weather and mulched the strawberries and garlic. While I was out there, I glanced into the pond, only to find that the koi had died. Curiously, a goldfish and the catfish also died this fall. I’m not …

twilight gardening

Please note that this post does not have anything to do with teenage vampires. Or werewolves, for that matter. Rather, it is the result of not getting the garlic planted in my garden earlier in the month, when I took a day off work to do just that. With the …

just got lucky

Today was a beautiful day. Surely, one of the last ones for the year. Coincidentally, I had today off work. My intentions were to plant garlic in the garden, but I still had a bunch of stuff growing in the garden, so I ended up removing that instead. I had …