Neat things happening in the yard!
Out on the bird feeder was a gold finch, and I raced for the camera! These are around this area all the time, but not so much in town as […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
An old tool brings up a story……….
This pair of tree trimmers have always been called loppers in the family, more specifically Pap’s loppers. They would probably be about a hundred years old, cos Pap would be well over […]
Lovage
Here’s an interesting plant. It’s a perennial herb called lovage. Tastes very much like really strong celery. It will get yellow flowers in the fall and the seeds that come from it […]
Grafted cherry tree
There is an old cherry tree in the yard that used to be half white and half pink flowers. Some of the grafted part has died out over the years […]
Proof that MaChatte is smarter than me………..
Well she’s smarter than me at least in terms of cat adventures. I had seedlings growing under grow lights in a hanging pot, where she couldn’t possibly get them. It […]
Garden Beginnings…………
So, my brother-in-law came with a ditch digging machine and dug up my garden. Dug down far enough to let roots of veggie plants have room to grow. Then my […]
OK, enough already
OK, it’s pretty and now we need spring. Next week’s temps look like they’ll be in the 50’s. Yesterday out back I saw a robin and a snow bird 6′ […]
Territory!
Twice I saw the second squirrel get up here to try to get some of the last bit of suet block. Twice he was told to GET DOWN! Poor MaChatte missed the […]
The crocus survived the snow………..
The little crocus, the smallest I ever saw, and always the first thing thru the ground, survived the snow. They are spreading and I don’t know how/why, and I don’t […]
Cabbage seedlings………
Cabbage seedlings are doing good and now I took the little peat plugs and planted them in ground in a pot. Then, started tomato seeds in my best light situation. Gardening starts indoors with some […]
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