Eloquent Pedestrian

This gardening season has been so different for me as a gardener than the two years before it. Because the weather gave me a head start, compared to the late snows of last year, I have not felt rushed or overwhelmed. At least not yet.  I did not accomplish many of my goals for winter garden related activities. But I did make a rough plan of what I wanted to plant. I even made a budget for everything I wanted to buy. When my mother asked me where I was going to put all of this, I told her, and she didn't believe that I would go through with it. To be honest, I wasn't sure I would go through with it.  But since there was nice warm weather in the month of March, I got a head start. I tried a couple of cold weather crops, with mixed success, and I cleared grass. I developed a method, I found ways to use my unwanted grass, and I committed myself to putting in the time. For the first time in months, I came home from work and didn't collapse into a chair. I went ou...

For the longest time, I didn't write because I had nothing to report. I hadn't knit, it was suddenly too cold to garden in the month of April, and I didn't want to bore anyone. I closed my eyes and come out of a time warp into the middle of May with so much to report I may have to do multiple blog posts. Next goal up: a posting schedule. This post will be about my garden. First off a status shot: This may not look like much, but compare it to the "before" status shot and you'll see what most of my gardening time has been. My ambition is to clear out all of the grass between the sidewalk and the garden patch, as well as planting all of the area around the tree stump. (You can see the tree stump there, but it's behind the rose bushes. The weather has gone from unseasonably warm, to unseasonably cold, to unseasonably wet. I have been impatient to get things in the ground. This was made even worse because my seed catalog orders came in. So I plante...