Garden - the frost has hit and I'm in the process of cutting back the stems of the dead plants. I'm always relieved when the frost kills them for me, hate killing plants ( Read more... )

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With Dave's help I nearly finished planting my city garden, in that all of the seeds rows are planted ( Read more... )

"A garden is never so good as it will be next year."
-- Thomas Cooper

( A brief photo essay on plants and 2007: )

I was glad to see frost on the ground this morning. Not because I like winter. More because I have to pull the plants out of my city garden plot before Nov 1, and I feel oddly guilty about uprooting them when they are still green and healthy. This way the frost will have killed them and I will be innocent. Well, of plant-killing, anyways ( Read more... )

It's cold out. I had been complaining recently about the weather being hot and smoggy, but the past few days we've had that rainy, windy weather that usually takes away summer until next year ( Read more... )

My garden plot is all planted and as of yesterday it looks like all my seeds are sprouting on schedule. So far there's been no devastating attacks by rodentia or lagomorphs, and relativly few weeds. Dave and I visited the garden twice over the weekend to check on the progress ( Read more... )

Since saturday I've been tending to my city garden plot. Still in the process of planting and laying it out, but I noticed that my first seeds, arugula, have sprouted. The radishes, carrots and seed potatoes should emerge soon ( Read more... )