Category: changing seasons

  • Seasons Change

    No, I’m not talking about Spring to Summer, but wet to dry, or in this case wet to moist. It’s June, and there’s still some water falling occasionally, but evaporation has caught up with precipitation and left many of the plants getting thirsty. I’ve started to water plants, and plan to start pumping water from…

  • Spring in full Swing

    Here we are approaching the last frost (assuming there might still be one or two left) and I am just barely ready to start planting. A few nominal efforts to weed the strawberries, and I am more convinced than ever to start replanting them using a sheet mulch and fresh weed free soil on top,…

  • Yes, Ok, it’s Officially Winter

    And it has been for a couple weeks now. When the first killing frost is in the low 20s(F) you know it’s time to start bringing in firewood and get the wood stove ready. I rarely run my batch-rocket hybrid, and fact is it is still under development. The first “door” was a glass pot…