Looking for evidence of hard frost would have been on June 1st so you didn't need that late night edit, FlowerBug :D!
Wow, a chance of frost ...
We had 86°f (30°C) yesterday afternoon with winds to nearly 40mph :oops:. I was looking for evidence of dust blowing but Thank Heavens, we had an...
I was having a difficult morning while running errands one day last week.
There was "When you are a Free Man" from "Seventh Sojourn." That album was issued at the time I had begun another sojourn in my life ...
@flowerbug , I played it while driving around –– it was most calming and helpful...
I enjoy having our periwinkle and have moved it twice with absolutely no problems in it's new, shady locations. (I painted a previous home in 2 shades of periwinkle blue ;).)
Our lemon balm has become a very vigorous plant that requires periodic cutting back as it squeezes the sage beside it...
Blackberries struggle through Winters here and yet are so abundant on the warmer side of the Pacific NW. Perhaps the seeds are carried by birds but the only locations where they are successfully are on some locations very near the river – the very lowest elevations and benefiting from the...
I sometimes have trouble working in the garden when we have big Yellow Jacket years, @Vanalpaca . I just try to move carefully and be a good neighbor because they do a good job carrying off the cabbage caterpillars ;).
Malt o Meal with blueberries for a first breakfast. The oolong has cooled...
Slugs are a special problem in the hoop house every Spring. To a much lesser extent, they also show up in the greenhouse – probably because so much water is not being used on in-soil beds. Finally, the big brown Leopard slug, invasive species, is outdoors. It seems to be in rather limited...