For those who read my last post, I'll share an update. I found my gardening knife. It was lying on the stone edge of one of the raised beds in the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. In plain sight. The replacement knife, with a sharpening stone, arrived the next day. So now I find I have a gardening knife, a back up gardening knife, plus a back up for the back up gardening knife. I've found it useful at times to have multiples of the same tool. Other things I've found in my garden … [Read more...] about Found in the Garden
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Lost in the Garden
I recently finished a long session of weeding by losing my gardening knife. Some gardeners call these useful knives hori-hori knives, and they are quite useful for weeding, planting, and even cutting an edge on a flower border, if one decides to do that by hand. They are also easily lost, I've found, ironically, as this is not the first time I've lost mine in the garden. I lost this particular gardening knife several years ago and only found it after I bought a second knife. That knife … [Read more...] about Lost in the Garden
Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do
What do you mean, I didn't plant this? This is none other than the nicest clump of fleabane, (probably Erigeron annuus), a common weed, that I've ever grown. It's blooming in the garden, acting for all the world like it belongs there, like it was I who planted it. I will let it go for now. It's kind of pretty. Plus, there are for more egregious weeds to pull before I yank this out. But I shall not let it go to seed! (Much) Elsewhere in the garden there are ox-eye daisies, … [Read more...] about Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do
Pick, Pluck, Pull – The Language of Harvesting
While pulling out some radishes, it occurred to me that new gardeners—really all gardeners—might find it useful to understand the language of harvesting. So with five minutes of thought, I present my treatise on the language of harvesting. Let me say first and foremost, one can harvest anything and not be wrong in referring to it as harvesting, though there is a specific use of the word "harvesting" that we will get to in a bit. But why harvest when you can pick, pluck, and pull? … [Read more...] about Pick, Pluck, Pull – The Language of Harvesting
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – May 2021
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for May 2021. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, if you stand still for a minute you will probably hear the collective exhaling of the breaths of all of us gardeners as we look at the long-range forecast and think that maybe, possible, hopefully, almost assuredly, we are now going to be frost-free until Fall arrives. Whew! But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves! Though the nights have been chilly and flirting with … [Read more...] about Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – May 2021
My New Garden-Admiring Service
Do your plants feel like nobody looks at them? Do they miss the sound of voices talking softly about how lovely their blooms are? Does your garden yearn for the soft footsteps of a plant-loving person wandering through and admiring it? Perhaps you are personally too busy, too tired, or maybe even too anxious to spend time just admiring your garden, enjoying it with a glass of iced tea and a good book? Maybe you are afraid of the bugs and spiders out in your garden? Or maybe you can't sit … [Read more...] about My New Garden-Admiring Service
