Garden Records

The indoor tomato experiment was a huge fail, mostly because it was so cold in here all through our days without heat. The tomato plant is still kinda, sorta, alive, but looking so awful that I am tempted to toss it. Frost and maters just aren't friends I guess. I think I will try again next y

Geranium seedlingsThose plastic cookie trays turned out to be fantastic for seed propagation. (Just what I needed, another excuse to eat cookies.) The geraniums sprouted in just over a week with sturdy, strong seedlings. Germination rate was excellent with nearly every seed producing a seedling. Now

I do this in two ways...from seed and from soft tissue cuttings. For the latter I use bulb jars, just because they are small and attractive. I pinch soft, green tips with a few leaves off my favorite plants and keep them in the little jars of water until they are well-rooted. Then I plant them in co

It hasn't ticked over into drought territory yet, but it is much drier than the previous two or three springs. Much warmer too. The dryness has yielded an unexpected benefit in that the birds need a place to drink...and I have bird baths. This guy takes a full bath quite often and the mockingbird c

Lettuce is up in the barrels, as are a few beets and some other stuff...can't seem to remember exactly what I put in there one cold day..oh well, I will figure it out when it comes up.The tarda tulips my Canadian friend gave me last year are blooming eagerly. They are simply delightful and I think o