Actually, I’ll blame most of this on one particular ancestor, my great-grandmother Juliet. She apparently liked her schemes, including planting mulberries so she could try to grow silkworms (didn’t work). One of the more common summer activities around here is seeing how many times we have to kill a mulberry before it stays dead (a [...]
Archive for May, 2008
The Things My Ancestors Did
Posted in Gardening on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Same old, same old
Posted in Gardening on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Still not a lot going on, other than weeds, which I really need to go and dig out.
A couple more things are showing buds, but I have to admit that it’s looking pretty sparse out there. I’m trying to have faith that the plants will fill in and that it will eventually look prettier, [...]
About that garden…
Posted in Gardening on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t forget. Well, not completely. There just hasn’t been much to report in the garden other than flooding. We’ve got grass turning yellow from too much rain and I have plants that are turning black because of cold and rain. I think. I don’t know. Nothing’s dying (yet), so I just have to wait [...]
Where’s my gun?
Posted in rat-bastard raccoons on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Seriously, I need to start practicing so I can get rid of the damned raccoon that keeps digging up my planters to get at non-existent grubs.
The first time it happened, I blamed the cats. Because cats are lazy and would much rather use my containers as a litter box then have to actually walk all [...]
Shopping List Update
Posted in Gardening on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went shopping again this past weekend. *gasp* What a surprise! And I did some damage to my shopping list and I even remembered to get some things I’d left off the list. Most importantly, I decided that there were some things on my list that I just didn’t really need or have a place [...]
*tap, tap, tap*
Posted in Gardening on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, this Sunday is the “official” frost-free date for where I live. Of course, I’ve already jumped the gun by planting all my containers… but I haven’t planted any of the beds yet. But I think I’m going to today. Especially since I’ve been watching the weather forecast and we’re not expected to drop any [...]
