Hi all! Hope your week is off to a great start. If you are like me and love a little peek into someone else’s garden, here is a little garden video tour I did this weekend. It starts off with a couple small landscape plantings I’ve recently added and then moves into the veggie garden area. Hope you enjoy! Have a great week!…
july garden activities
July 10, 2019In my zone 6 garden, July is primarily a month for maintenance. Here are some of the things I am working on this month. There is nothing ready for harvest at the moment- and likely not for a while. I was late getting everything in due to all the rain we had during the spring. What are you working on this month? Are you posting garden pics on Instagram? Come find me (@thewoodlandgardener)!…
veggie garden update
July 8, 2019MIA lately because – I’ve been spending most my life living in a garden paradise (name that tune!). And doing some other fun summer activities. July is mostly a month for maintaining and I will post later this week the tasks on our list on this month. In the meantime, here are some photos in case you are wondering how the plants are doing. There are a bunch of tomato plants getting bigger every day (not pictured). I harvested the…
i’m digging – the arrival of summer!
June 28, 2019garlic scapes are ready
June 24, 2019With all this rain we’ve had here in the Midwest lately, the veggie plants aren’t exactly thriving. My poor tomato and pepper plants are needing some hot sun, and fast! In the meantime, I’ve planted squash, cucumber, and beans. The garlic is coming along nicely. Last fall I planted two types: German Extra Hardy (hardneck) and Ozark (softneck). I’m still a fairly new garlic gardener and learning more all the time. The hardneck varieties produce what is called a scape.…
thoughtful thursday: the high cost of gardening
June 20, 2019This week I am taking a hard look at our household expenses. We’ve done well over the past few years with reducing some costs, while others have gone up. I am “keeping it real” in this post…read on. When the figures were tallied, my eyes were opened when I looked at how much I spend each year on gardening: it averages right around 1K per year since 2015 (don’t have the numbers readily available prior to that). But back to…
thoughtful thursday: plants on vacation
June 13, 2019I was sitting in my reading chair one afternoon this week, looking around the house. My view included living room, dining room, and kitchen (“open concept” floor plan, pretty much the whole first floor), and thought: it feels so barren, I need more plants in here. How can there not be plants in here? What is UP with that? Then it occurred to me, they’re all outside for the summer. D’oh! Maybe it’s been a long week already… Here are…
june garden activities
June 4, 2019i’m digging – catalpa flowers!
May 31, 2019This week I am digging the blossoms on some catalpa trees we have. They are so delicate and fragrant. The leaves on these trees are huge and they look sort of tropical. When the sun is shining brightly it makes the leaves glow from underneath. So pretty! Here is a photo from a couple years ago. Have a great weekend!…
