This month saw a lot of activity in the garden. I cleared a lot of overgrown areas and continued to clean up my raised beds. There isn’t much blooming at the moment aside from skunk vine, blanket flowers, and roselle. I am so excited to see how my bougainvillea trellis looks in bloom. Overall, lots of excitement heading into fall. Garden odds and Ends To … Continue reading August 2022
I’m stepping a bit back from social media so I thought I’d use this blog to document some garden progress for the prior month. Given my garden record keeping is fairly dismal at the moment, this required me to go through my month in photographs, which was actually a lot of fun. The big takeaways below are arranged by topics rather than chronologically. I am … Continue reading July 2022
Leaving a garden you’ve cultivated for years is hard. I planted nearly every plant in the garden with my bare hands (literally because I tend not to wear gloves). I learned a ton about Missouri plants, pollinators, and gardening in general over the nearly 10 years I spent in that garden. I also miss my house, but it is really the garden that I grieve. … Continue reading 4 Months In
Looking back at this blog, I realize the last time I wrote about my garden was on March 14, 2021! That was 280 days ago. I completely missed updates about my spring and summer garden. Little did I know at the time, that would be the last spring and summer in my Missouri garden (see links below for garden highlights from our final months in … Continue reading Starting Anew
What’s going on in the garden now that we are 4 weeks before the last frost… Continue reading 4 Weeks before Last Frost (2021)
Dirty Britches 