Category: Garden

Today I cleaned up the beds to get ready for fall. I picked our pumpkins the other day and put those out on the front porch. But the pumpkin patch was a mess. So got that all cleaned up. Cleaned up the flower bed, removed the old sunflowers and staked up the dahlias. I even found a new Bloom that was hidden under dead sunflowers and I must say it’s my favorite one so far, it’s so pretty!

Today I also planted all my starts. This time around I am using worm castings for compost when planting my starts. In the strawberry bed I planted green onions, cilantro, dill, and lots of lettuce. In the other bed I planted dragon carrots (they’re red), bok choy, and green beans. Not too much for a harvest but I’ve never had a fall garden so we will see how it goes.

Today was a mixture of little things. I moved my green beans up to bigger pots. They seemed to grow to be huge overnight. I soaked the beans the other day and they are big enough to transplant less than a week later.

My husband hung up my garden sign on the shed today. I have had this sign for years, coming with me from house to house and it’s finally in it’s place. I love it. Today’s harvest was just what I have been craving, salsa. It’s so good when it’s right out of the garden! Also from the garden, a new Dahlia variety bloomed today and it is beautiful.

 

I also went to a couple garage sales and found some treasures. I bought an air plant at Skagit Valley Gardens a couple weeks ago and found the cutest little holder for it. I love how it turned out. Air plants are so easy to maintain, just soak it in water for 5-10 minutes every one to two weeks. Another great find was a pair of wooden lawn chairs, only $10 for the set! I see lots of nights by the fire in those? The last little thing I found was a cute poem. I think I’ll make some flower art with my son and display this poem next to it ?

Now that we took down two trees we have a couple stumps to kill. I found a way on Pinterest with something we already had in the garage, rock salt. I drilled a bunch of large holes in the stump and filled up the holes with salt. I’m not sure how long it takes to dry out the stump but fingers crossed it works. I’m open to suggestions though ?

Today we had two large Juniper trees cut down on the side front yard. They were just too big and took up the whole side of the house. After they cut down the trees I went in and took down all these shrubs that were hidden under the trees. I still need to figure out how to kill the stumps…another day. Next year we are going to make this space into an English cottage garden with lots of flowers. I have always loved those. It will be fun to grow flowers from seed too.

My husband made my day today. He made me a mini greenhouse in our shed. I bought the light years ago and used it at our last house. But it’s just been in storage waiting to be used again. I planted a few seeds for our fall garden, dill, cilantro, lettuce, and green onions. I ordered the rest of the seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. I ordered bok choy, green beans, dragon carrots (they are red), and some more lettuce. Another simple garden task we did today was add on/off switches for the drip lines to each bed. I will need water to my hoop house but not the others once summer is over so this will give us control over what gets watered.