Entries from Postcards from the Trail tagged with 'gardening'
Photohunt: Free Week
The garden reflected in raindrops on Salvia mexicana This week's photohunt is a free week - we get to share the photo of our choice. I woke up to a hard rain on the roof. The forecast was for...
End of Vegetable Garden Season
Last of the tomatoes We are shutting down our vegetable garden for the season. We have a few more vegetables left to harvest but it is mainly done for the season. This has been a good year especially for...
Home Canned Tomatoes
The hot weather has given us a bumbercrop of tomatoes. I decided it was time to can some tomatoes. I had a dozen pint jars and we had way enough tomatoes to fill them.G said he wanted to help...
Summer heatwave
Hot summers are rare in Seattle. Located near the water, there is always a cool marine influence. This year it has been hot and dry! It happens. If it is going to get hot in Seattle - it will...
Vegetable Garden 2009 #6
The tomatoes are fattening up and some are getting lighter but we still do not have our first ripe tomato. We went out of town last week and they got a little stressed while we were gone. It has...
Vegetable Garden 2009 #5
Wow! what a difference in just three weeks! My last update was on June 14th. We had just had seen our first tomatoes - little tiny Oregon Stars. The weather turned a little cool about two weeks ago but...
Garden Tour
I was inspired by WCS video garden tour. He did a tour of his vegetable garden that was fun to watch. My small Canon SD800 has a video mode so I made the following video of the garden in front...
Colour My Garden: Pink & Fuchia
Rosa glauca Our streak of rain-free days has come to an end. It rained Thursday bringing the streak to an end. We matched the previous record of 29 consecutive dry days in May-June. It was nice to hear the...
Colour My Garden: Blue & Purple
> Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens' I don't have any particular color scheme in our garden. Our garden is totally a plantsman garden. No design. No rhyme. No scheme. There are plants scattered through the area. I love to walk the...
Vegetable Garden 2009 #4
Yes, we have tomatoes! Three of the tomatoes on the driveway and one in the greenhouse have fruit. The first one to fruit is a new variety for us, Oregon Star. The plant looks a little funky. The leaves...
Colour My Garden: Yellow
Fremontodendron 'California Glory' I love this time of the year in the garden. The garden just erupts in color. Yesterday I took the opportunity to walk around and take some pictures. I noticed right off that yellow was the...
Arum Dioscoridis
G loves unusual plants. Can you tell from our travels? We have orchids and loads of salvias. Arums and the related genus like Arisaema is another plant family he loves. He worked many years at Seattle Garden Center in...
Vegetable Garden 2009 #3
First harvest - lettuce Wow! What a different three warm weeks will make. We have been having gorgeous weather here in Seattle. It has been up in the 80's this week. You can almost see the garden growing. I...
Vegetable Garden 2009 #2
The weather has started to warm up. Finally! Lows are still into the mid-low 40's but we have had a couple of nights of low more around 50 degrees. High temperatures - a couple of days into the 60's but...
Vegetable Garden 2009 #1
Amy's May flower post reminded me that I need to post how our vegetable garden is coming along. I like to blog about it so we can keep a record of when we plant our garden and how it...
Spring Garden Planning
It is that time again. Time to start our seedlings for this year's vegetable garden. We are going to change some of the items that we grew last year. Some things didn't work well. We are going to try...
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