https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/

http://pollinatorswelcome.com/

A method used in dry places for watering plants with minimal water loss. The most popular searches bring up the terracotta pots (olla pots), from South America I think, but the method goes back to BCE times in China. And of course there's permaculture sites that talk about it as well ( Read more... )

Nearly all the plants indoors are now outdoors or on the porch (easy to enclose if it gets below 40F at night). I've a few more upstairs to move out, but it's too late in the day for that now ( Read more... )

There are plans and then there is what actually happens ( Read more... )

Still playing catch-up, between being ill for weeks and then fall festival. Made it to one kung fu class this week though, which was nice. Currently working on a major move in the radiant/weaving room right now. There's a set of 4 tall cabinets on one of the inner walls -- this is modular stuff, so each one is like half a cabinet, as regards ( Read more... )

And, finally got enough new soil into the raised bed to put plants in there yesterday. Two tiny red leaf lettuce, a couple curly kale, and a bunch of swiss chard. Should be able to put row cover over it for protection easily enough, for autumn...altho' depending on how things go with the greenhouse, maybe I could move a couple of the chard in there ( Read more... )

Today I divided and re-potted the Lemon Grass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbopogon_citratus). It was a little harder to divide than I thought it would be -- the roots crisscross more than I'm used to with grasses. I ended up with four pots, so they have plenty of ( Read more... )

Raised bed still isn't done -- did do some work on it, but fitting miscellaneous rocks together to form a wall is a bit of work. The veg can't wait though, so two tomatoes are in large pots, with two new ones awaiting their turn to be re-potted into big pots. They're going to be "topiaries" on the patio ( Read more... )

Afternoon not bad, aside from losing track of time such that I was late calling my mom (she's doing well ( Read more... )

A gorgeous sunny day! And no significant humidity either, so I can breathe freely and my laundry should dry quickly :) Haven't done too much yet outdoors today, but worked a bit on the future veg bed and laid plastic over it ( Read more... )