garden/yard

for a long time, we’ve been planning on taking out a row of leland cypresses and turning a huge crab grass infested natural area into grass. while i was out yesterday, derek grabbed the chain saw and started in. eight giant leland cypresses, several crape myrtles and a holly tree are now hacked up all […]

a few weeks ago, my sproutlings met an untimely death. fortunately, the seeds that lagged behind made it through the frozen night, and have since sprouted themselves. i also replanted the peat pots that were empty, so hopefully, the garden will be ready to be planted in a few weeks…  

i am in mourning today. a few weeks ago, i adopted over 130 herb and vegetable seeds. i bought them some high quality dirt and some peat pots for homes. i carefully planted basil, oregano, rosemary and cilantro, tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, and butternut squash, watermelons and peppers. i labeled them. i watered them […]

Our whole yard has been taken over by crab grass. I tried to keep up with it in our first summer here. And last summer, I managed for awhile, but the war was won towards the end of summer. This year, with a monsterbaby, I was ill-equipped to go to battle, so the crab grass […]

So, in the last few weeks, we’ve: 1. mulched the entire front yard natural areas (2 truckloads)2. planted 54 petunias along the front walkway3. planted new grass in the giant circle of dirt that used to be pompous grass* And then, finally, for the first time this season, I mowed. Mowing used to be my […]