You can tell it’s the very start of the gardening season because we’re still excited enough about everything we’re doing that we’re taking tons of pictures and writing posts about all of it. By July, we’re going to be all, “Garden? Meh. Yeah. It’s such a burden.” But for now, [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘3. March’
March 16, 2009
Impulse Gardening
Spring must be in the air, because I spent all day yesterday looking at our pictures on flickr of last year’s garden, reading our archived posts about it, and basically just freaking out about how much I can’t wait for our plants to start growing. So imagine my delight when I got down to [...]
March 15, 2009
Garden Fever
Garden Fever struck Maple Hoo hard today, getting us all in a tizzy to have green stuff to poke around at outside. Sadly, that’s still months off. However, we did take one exciting step today:
Those there are tomatoes. Sweet, heavenly, fabulous, wonderful, gorgeous Jersey tomatoes. We showed much better restraint than we [...]
March 30, 2008
Gardening… OUTSIDE!
Today was a big day in the lives of the tomatoes of Maple Hoo, as we could no longer deny that they have grown too big for the little trays we started them in. Knowing what a mess the three of us are capable of making with a few peat pots and a bag [...]
March 23, 2008
Seedlings ‘08: An Update
This morning saw tragedy befall our onion crop. Pookie reported shortly after the event, “The onions will someday be able to tell their descendants about the time they survived the Great Earthquake.” It seems she was rotating the flat of seedlings and, well, dropped it. Many were lost in the cataclysm. [...]
March 22, 2008
It Seems To Have Sprung
The first day of Spring was two days ago, and it appears the plants in our yard got the news. I’ve spent much of this morning glaring jealously at the little cluster of crocuses at the base of our neighbor’s mailbox, until suddenly it dawned on me that we have a spot in our [...]
March 16, 2008
Readying The Earthworks
Ah, March. The time of year when you wake up to steel-gray skies, bare branches, and a 50-degree, drizzly day and say, “It’s a great day for gardening!”
Well, okay, it’s not a great day for gardening, per se, as much as it’s a great day for garden readying. We’re still a few weeks [...]
