Companion planting and happiness

"Companion plants create opportunities for timeshare or simultaneous display." Lauren Springer Ogden, The Undaunted Garden. I bought this gardening book because my green-thumbed Grandma DeeDee told me to. The problem with the book is that there is so very much information crammed onto every page. It will likely take the rest of my gardening life to …

In the garden of Edith

We lunched today in Grandma DeeDee's garden. I wanted to see her latest project, the parking strip in the front where she replaced the sod with blooms and green, a bird bath, a bird house, a bench, and a path through the beauty. She told me about wanting to do this last year and I …

here’s how our garden grows

We gardened. Finally. And the outcome makes me happy. The best visual outcome so far is The Herb Wall. THE HHHHERB WALL. One day, we will repaint our patio. Until then, we will use some of the vertical space for growing herbs. Nathan tucked them in behind the raspberry bushes. One day, we will also …

The tomatoes are in

We planted six tomato plants on Saturday in little greenhouses. Hopefully they survive. Some of the lettuce is coming up. Some of the peas have sprouted. So far, those are the only seeds showing signs of life in the plot. But there's some life from the carrots we planted in the big, blue pot. The …