Category: Gardening

  • My Tomato Woes

    Check out this post from the Egg Report today about worm eggs. My garden was doing alright, in some ways, but now my tomatoes are being attacked. I saw a worm coming out of a hole in the last week or two, and killed it immediately, it was very small, tiny really. A few days…

  • Building Time

    I was looking out the back door and noticed something moving in the Maple in the East part of the yard, directly ahead to the left a bit. I got out my binoculars, and sure enough, in the tree was a Northern Mockingbird, building a nest. I went out and looked at it a little…

  • Garden Update

    It’s hot out. Despite that, when checking for eggs, I nearly always go and pick around in the garden. From now on I need to be sure and have a long sleeve over-shirt on. I can see freckles on my arms that were not there this morning. I always put on my wide-brimmed hat when…

  • Plants, plants, plants

    Our Patio Peach tree didn’t make it. We planted it new this Spring, root shock did it in. We bought it at Pikes, who guarantee their plants. So we had a store credit, fine with me! We bought lots of nice little plants today with that store credit. Some new Gehrber Daisies to complement the…

  • My Garden is getting bigger

    This past weekend Frank and I turned out another piece of ground for our garden, it’s now in a sort of L shape. I have planted some green “bush” beans, and plan to plant some stringless green climbing beans at the end of that parcel. In-between the beans are more tomatoes. I’ve never had as…

  • Trees again

    I wrote about trees the other day, and must add something. I found two more young editions of the Maple, in the bern. Further along than the ones “I” have sprouted. I also have two other plants, in a similar stage of development, which I cannot place as to what they are, but they don’t…

  • Growing trees

    I have two, actually now three, little October Glory Maple tree seeds germinating. I, on a whim, sometime in the last couple of weeks, put some that I’d found on the ground, where the tree lives in the front yard bern, into a little dish and filled it with water. My methodology was based only…

  • Storms and stuff

    We’ve had bad storms all week, which is also the reason this site has been down since Monday night, if y’all have been checking. It’s good to be back, updating pages again! We had Tornado Watches and Warnings off and on, and Flood Watches, Warnings, Flash Flood Warnings, Severe Thunderstorm, etc … all of it,…

  • Rabbits

    We have a wild rabbit in the back yard. Frank told me about it the other day, and we both saw it this afternoon. The back of our yard is all high grass/weeds right now, and there are lots of thistle growing, towering over Frank, even. Somewhere there that rabbit has a hole or some…

  • Iris, the photos

    I have the photos of the Iris that bloomed, our first iris blooming. It’s since faded, of course, but this was just the other week. Beautiful! Click “track back” below this post for the links.

  • Iris in bloom!

    The one lone iris bloom opened this morning! It’s gorgeous, and I couldn’t resist snapping a few shots with my camera. I finished the one remaining picture on that roll with the biggest blossom on one of our Cherokee Cheif Dogwood trees, a semi close-up. When these are developed, I’ll scan them in for this…

  • Plants

    We got some garden plants last night … and some flowering plants for the bern and where ever else they should go instead. For the garden, it’s just tomatoes, different varieties; and peppers, and some herbs, for now. We have work to do in the garden, adding composted manure and reworking the space. We began…