Mr. Wolf and I did a quick inventory while we carpooled to work this morning. Here’s what we have planted so far:
- 3 blueberry bushes (plan to get at least 3 more)
- 1 peach tree
- 2 cherry trees
- 1 fig tree
- several strawberry plants
- 3 grapevines (table grapes)
Additionally, I have garlic and onions waiting to be planted. In the front bed, we have rosemary, thyme and sage… I hope they survived the frost. Haven’t checked. I’m sure the rosemary did, but I wonder about the others. Oh, and we of course have the hazelnut trees which, well, we’ll try again. Dratted birds. We also have the ever prevalent blackberry bushes that just grow and grow and grow. And groooowwwww.
Today, with any luck, we’ll pick up the chickens. Last week, the farm store had sold out by the time we got over there after work!
For the rest of the garden this summer, I think we’re going to go for some pole beans, tomatoes (urg), a few kinds of hot peppers, lettuce and… hm… can’t think of what else yet. Oh! Carrots! Lurve carrots.
Now, it’s 28 degrees outside, so someone please send me some slightly warmer temps, kthx.
This house we moved to is out in the sticks, but not actually. It’s, like, fake-rural. We live right off a relatively busy highway, but we have a little under half an acre and it’s a dead-end street with not too many houses. The bugs like it here. We have wasps building nests way up on the gable where we can’t reach them. Bastards. Last night a spider the size of a dinner plate ran under the dryer in the basement. Bastard. I told my husband there’s a reason I don’t do laundry… We also have plenty of flies, mosquitoes and I don’t even want to know what else right now. I’m kind of freaking myself out.
*cries a little*
Anyway, as I write this, I’m hanging out on the front porch with the wasps and a couple of spiders. We are so cozy. I can’t wait to hang out here on a warm, rainy day.
I plan to paint those chairs a glossy cobalt blue. Was going to do red, but then realized they’d clash with the porch. Wait! Don’t look at the porch. It’s all chipped and scuffed. For that matter, don’t look at the siding on the house, either.
Look! It’s an herb garden!
Yesterday, we tore out all the neglected and dead things that were not!growing in this little area and replaced them with some sort of fancy rosemary from Italy, some lavender plants from the sale rack, some thyme and some sage. And some flowering perennial thing. Can’t you tell what a good gardener I am?
The neighbors are very interested in our gardeing efforts. Pretty much everyone has stopped by to check on our progress. One lady who has lived on this street for 37 years just came by to tell us how pristine this street used to be. But, uh, no pressure. Just, you know, hurry up and FIX IT. (Okay, not really, they are very nice and have offered the use of garden tools. So we’ll FIX IT ALREADY.)
Seed-saving update: Some well-meaning soul threw away my jalapeño seeds. I’m looking in Mr. Wolf’s direction (!hi honey!), but we had lots of people over on Labor Day for a BBQ and it could have been anyone who was helping us clean up. My fault for not labeling them. My fingers are no longer burning… THE BURNING!… so maybe I’ll try again.
What. They were hot this time and there were like a thousand of them. Or thirty.
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