rain barrels
We haven’t been using our rain barrel system as much as we’d like with the soaker hoses, in part because of the low water pressure they would have even when…
Updates on the gardens
After work last night, we came home and looked at the gardens, and low and behold the bugs are now in force. We picked off potato bugs on the tomatoes,…
What can you do in two weeks?
Day One: Prep, weed, add soil and plant potatos in Veg#1 (3’x56′ bed) Prep, weed, add soil and plant potatos in Veg#2 (3’x28′ bed) Prep, weed, add soil and plant…
done as done can be
After almost two weeks of work, we are as done as done can be. All of the vegetable beds were built, soiled, cleaned, cleared, setup and planted. All of the…
And more grass
These are before and after pictures of our vegetable bed #5. The soil we got last year to build this was particularly bad and full of weed and grass seed.…
Grass gets into everything
More and more the grass is infiltrating everywhere. So this year we started to expand all of the mulch rings around the trees, eliminating more grass that will not need…
More raised beds
These are raised Veg Beds #7 and #8, each approx 8’x3′ or 24ft^2. Two of the three new beds we put up this year due to too many more types…
Do you know what kind of tree this is?
Here are closeups of the flowers, leaves and trunk From the five petal white flower a tentative ID is Gray Dogwood. We’ll need some better images of the leaf though.
Wet & cold spring
And we still haven’t planted most of the garden yet. It has been wet, cold and cloudy. It looks like we may be 4 weeks later than last year already.…
slow spring
The temperatures have been cool… very cool… so cool that a lot of our plants are behind already and getting farther back. Temperatures remain well below average and the little…
The day is clear and windy
This week has been quite a week. Monday- interviews for my class project at the Mission in Partners Food Bank and the Loving Spoonful. Wednesday-We saw our first Robin, and…
Mice in the greenhouse
After sealing the floor better to adding a pile of mouse traps into the greenhouse… the mice are still there. We discovered some of the little plants starting to come…
Spring Prep
Spring is coming… this Sunday March 20th, 2011 at 19:21 EDT to be exact. And that has caused us to start thinking about gardens. So far the plans are pretty…
Greenhouse Day at Starlight Cascade Gardens
What a busy day….and its only 10:30 am. Took the compost out and has it ever fallen in the new compost heap. Took a look around the yard, some damage…