is a little like Nightswimming (ala the REM song), except that I wasn’t naked. I was, however, under the moon, just me, the cats and my trowel, digging in the dirt wet from the evening lawn watering. I had really wanted to get my trellises set up for the coral vine that my mother gave [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Nightgardening . . .
Posted in Flower Gardening, tagged Coral Vine, Flower Gardening, Gardening, Trellis on July 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Excuses to stay up — UrbanGardenCasual.com
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening, Urban Farming, Urban Gardening on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so I said to myself this week, “Zip, last week you got to bed at 11:30 pm almost every night, when you had to get up at 5:30 am to get ready for work, so this week you are getting to bed as close to 10:30 pm as possible.” Well, I did that Sunday, [...]
Sphagnum Peat Moss Update
Posted in Square Foot Gardening, tagged Square Foot Gardening, Suburban Farming on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, forget what I told you about using sphagnum moss instead of sphagnum peat moss in your SFG. Turns out I was wrong, wrong, wrong (to the tune of the Amy Winehouse Rehab refrain).
For one thing, I found out Saturday in my daily idle Internet surfing that sphagnum moss, the stuff I had said is a more [...]
Musings and the Funky Butte Ranch
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Self-Sufficiency on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No fabulous gardening news today. If I’m feeling energetic enough this weekend, I may try planting a small circular SFG, though I’m not sure if it’s circular you can technically call it a square foot garden. In any case, I thought that might be nice, though I feel so drained from my (insert pathetic whine [...]
