Notes, Insect Strategies & Winding Down

Gardening Related

It’s been an unusually hot summer for everyone, hallucinating chickens, we all have to look after each other, that’s a great big hunk of humanity, life outweighs getting to the next showing on time, getting a little bit chillier in mid to late September, rip up your tomato plants and hang them in the garage, and why would I do that?, get over the guilt of not starting earlier, Forrest is freaking out that the house is becoming less house and more jungle, we need to talk about gardening husbandry, give your partner at little piece of the garden, we’re getting some major rain outside, geraniums, citronella geraniums, we’re buggy, brilliant, octagon slab garden, lemongrass, oh oh oh, Rose of Sharon, strawberry flower bed, this is me being exactly what not to do, I have no idea what they are, when you take a plant out of the ground you should cut it back a bit, as above so below, I love your enthusiasm and your willingness to experiment, there’s always next year, I would keep more notes, Christopher Lloyd, Great Dixter, Fergus Garrett, “once you’ve got your garden in, most of gardening is editing”, working with nature, name your beds, it’s amazing, a busy winter planning everything I want to put in, how did I not know that?, boxwood, as you try something all your intelligence and awareness kicks in, calendar reminders, don’t cut perennials anymore, don’t dead head roses now, cleaning up garden, onions, carrots, flowerbeds, good bugs & animals need cover, one of the things I did right…, fat ground hog hangs out with the chickens, rotate your crops, bad bugs know where to find your tomatoes if you keep planting them in the same spot, nightshade plants, cold crops, what! That’s insane, walls of water, bugs outnumber us 10,000 to 1, you get depressed, Seven, good bugs need to keep alive, ants & peonies, manure and mulch, worms love cardboard, Bob’s your uncle, poppies, cornstarch will stop seeds reseeding, I love a mossy crosswalk, best thing about your garden?, crocuses, peas, clematis, wisteria, Chester the dog, you can’t beat a list, give your insects a place to hibernate under your flower leaves, winter web research strategies, dream bigger than what you see around you, persicaria, filipendula, now is the time for dreaming, English Garden magazine, give yourself the gift of what’s coming next, shredded pork with garlic sauce, love you whole bunches.