Archive for 'composting'
July 28, 2009
Wow, where has July gone? Sorry I haven’t posted, but it’s been just plain too hot to garden much. The later part of my vacation was spent on the garage, helping a friend move and playing at the pool with the kids. Alas, nowhere in there did I mention gardening. Well, that’s not quite true, [...]
Posted: July 28th, 2009 under composting, polination, seed starting, tomatoes, watering/irrigation, weather.
Comments: 10
July 23, 2009
Today I got a chance to get out into the garden for the first time in a while. Mostly I needed to gut it of all the spent and bolted plants. The secondary benefit was to get rid of the piles (and I mean piles) of compostables that have just been sitting around (mostly in [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2009 under composting, potatoes, watering/irrigation.
Comments: 3
July 13, 2009
Wow, how the weather can change here in Seattle. My father used to say if you don’t like the weather here, wait 15 minutes, it will change. It hasn’t been that bad, but following a 90 degree Saturday, we’ve had two days of 60 degree overcast weather. It even rained, though that was welcome news [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2009 under SWCs, composting, planning, weather.
Comments: 5
June 14, 2009
Well, another busy weekend in renovation land. Thankfully we’re getting close to being done so it should go on the market this month. YAY!
Big post day today. Yesterday I tried to write one but couldn’t find the motivation or a topic even. Today I have far more to talk about than I can get into [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2009 under composting, harvest, pests, tomatoes.
Comments: 10
June 6, 2009
Ah, time sure flies. It seems like just yesterday my youngest was born, and now he turned three last week, and we’ve been celebrating ever since. Good times.
Still, gardening has been done, and I’ve tried to take pics of whatever I did to share. Mostly I’ve watered, especially the tomatoes. They’re drinking tons in this [...]
Posted: June 6th, 2009 under SWCs, composting, planting, potatoes, seed starting, seeds, tomatoes.
Comments: 6