Kerry’s Garden

My poor little apricot is always in such a hurry. This one lives in a half barrel and I do believe that next winter I am going to move it to the north side of the house to discourage such an early showing. I had meant to do that last winter but the time got [...]

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The second automatic vent I ordered came a couple of weeks ago. It has been so wet and cold since then I didn’t get it installed. I noticed this morning that the other lid with the autovent already installed was open a few inches so I decided to take advantage of today and get the [...]

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This year’s Big Beef tomatos are making an entrance albeit slowly but surely. I ended up placing a heating pad (on low) half way under the plastic bin to bump up the temps a bit. I don’t know if that did the trick or not but according to the thermometer it added about 5 degrees. [...]

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Not much has been going on around here garden-wise as is evidenced by the post drought and snow cover. That is slowly starting to change though. The past couple of weekends I have been seeding flats with some perennial flowers, herbs etc. Johnny Jump Ups, Baby’s Breath, Rudbeckia, Butterfly Bush, White Coneflower, Bellflower, Roman Chamomile, [...]

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We’ve had lots of lows in the teens and days in the 20s-30s. Today it actually got into the low 50s for the first time since late November. I re-covered the cold frame lids yesterday as the way I did it the first time didn’t allow water to run off very easily and the weight [...]

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Last night we were the recipients of some freezing rain. This morning everything was covered with a layer of ice. Fortunately not enough to cause any local damage that I am aware of. Being that I am not a big fan of the cold I didn’t make it outside while the ice was still thick. [...]

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Last weekend I built the ‘lights’ (aka lids) for my cold frame. I covered them in 6 mil plastic to keep the weight down. I installed the Univent automatic opener and have discovered that I will definately need a second one of these for the other side at least during the fall and spring seasons. [...]

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