Well friends - the garden is a virtual jungle right now… I’m in there almost everyday coaxing the little squiggly squash tendrils upward away from it’s tomato and cucumber neighbors. The cucumber’s tendrils are leaning towards the tomato and I have to separate them as well. So far everything is growing like gangbusters and I’m...
Category Archives: Gardening
Inspired to sketch…
by my favorite sketch illustrator Susan Branch. I love her books, and pretty much everything she touches with her special brand of creativity. Well I get her newsletter and this time I followed the gardening link and low and behold she recommended this nifty book for the gardeners in her midst…
Who am I to question...
Library? Check. Garden? In progress..
Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing. Not sure who this quote is attributed to but it makes me feel all cozy and happy as both reading and digging in the dirt are what’s fueling me these days. That and coffee, and yarn too.
I’m still nursing seedlings into the ground and...
Cloudy skies… happy earth.
The rain is pretty crazy here in the northeast isn’t it? We’ve had 8 straight days of some form of rain here in Philly and today was a bit of a break. Cloudy and gloomy but no rain fell so I was out in the garden! I was outside for the better part of the...
The city slicker finally takes the gardening plunge..
Okay chica so I’ve lived in the country for 10 years and I have gardened a ton - lots of container gardening but never have I attempted anything as ambitious as I’m doing this spring.
So these little beauties are germinating on my kitchen counter while the squash is learning how to weather the elements...