I’m now getting a handful of strawberries and snow peas ripening every day, which is wonderful. The carrots are starting to come along too. I’ve never grown carrots before, so I don’t know when I should pull them up. I’m thinking at least another week or two? They look a bit skinny.
Yesterday I was going to try for a hattrick and post a third garden post in three days, but gardening is hard work. I used to think gardening was a sport reserved for old people. Not any more.
Two garden posts in two days – I know, I know! But I finally got the last of the backyard plants for this season and I couldn’t wait to show them off.
The strawberries have been flowering for about a week now, and the blueberry bush is starting to get its first buds.
It may have snowed two weeks ago, and rained for a week solid, but the sun’s out today, and warm weather has been predicted by the augurs going forward, so I’m doing it. I’m prepping the garden for 2013.
After Bootsy died, I needed something to do – a project. I’d bought these Fintorp buckets from Ikea back in November, which tells you how long I’ve been sitting on this. They’re intended to be cutlery caddies, but I thought they’d make nice containers for an indoor herb garden. So, we went to Plant World, …
