I’ve made a note to myself so that next year I will plant much, much less cinnamon basil. It did 10x better than our regular basil, perhaps because it ended up in a prime piece of real estate. It quickly overshadowed everything else in its bed; I found red peppers drying on the plant buried underneath [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Raised Beds’
Garden Update: September
Does a post consisting entirely of the words “sad and pathetic” suffice? Oh, fine. Let me wallow in garden-pity while I regale you with my tale of woe. Eep! Ignore that water runoff, will ya? Thought we’d fixed that! That’s the view from the front. Not quite as pretty as most of the larger sunflowers [...]
July’s Garden Update
Hot, humid, intolerable to be in between the hours of 7:30am to 7:30pm. That’s our garden right now. Our temps are hovering around 110F with a mid-month peak of 118F (48C). The added humidity has been what’s really pushed us over the miserable edge. Our tomatoes are very stunted, our corn is anemic, our melons [...]
What’s Growing On?
It’s rather frustrating to take photos and plan a garden post, only to forget or become distracted or have other things to share first, then to go back to those photos when you’re ready to post only to have them be outdated. Zeb spent the night with a friend, so before we pick him up [...]
Janky
Jan-ky [jang-kee] -adjective 1. Inferior quality; held in low social regard; old and dilapidated; refers almost exclusively to inanimate material objects: We tried to pick up on these girls waiting for the bus, but I was driving my sister’s janky 1989 Geo Metro so we just got clowned instead. . 2. Poorly constructed or unattractive; [...]
My name is Tara. I am a mama and a lover, a full-time nomad, a passionate devourer of Life and an Organic Life Coach.
