Kerry’s Garden

Today was one of those days that started out rough (headache and a trip to the chiropractor) but I ended up getting a lot of little stuff done after a 2hr nap. I transplanted some small containers of willow (scarlet curls and black maul from cuttings), lavender (2 minis I picked up from ebay), chives [...]

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She SCORES again. Today I took a trip to B. & J.’s place to pick up some manure. They have a neighbor with a dozen or so horses, a rather large pile of aged manure AND a front end loader. Just the kind of neighbor every gardener wants. Two huge scoops for B. & J [...]

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Here is the False Indigo flowers I mentioned yesterday. This was one of my mother’s day presents from the kid last year. Good kid there. This iris was at the house when we moved in. I thinned out the bed and planted a number of the starts here year before last. This is the first [...]

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(I had this picture at full size but it trashed the formatting of the page. If you have any interest in viewing it just click on it) The title pretty much says it all. Though I didn’t get everything done I had hoped to I did accomplish alot. I generally plan more than I can [...]

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First big day outside of the year for me. Earlier in the season T., K. and I decided that we would be mowing our own lawn this year…with a walk behind mower. Yep, almost an acre. We did it the first two years we lived here so we all know what we are getting into. [...]

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This is the first time I’ve dared to look since Saturday. We may or may not get a freeze tonight but it should be about the last one for this round and it shouldn’t be anywhere near as cold as it has been. I’ll take another inventory in the coming weeks to see how these [...]

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Several years ago my partner T. suggested I try some wine for my stomach. I’ve had stomach ‘issues’ from way back and while the prescription meds do help tremendously, there are occasionally times where I need a little more. Hardly believing it would help I finally gave in and tried her suggestion. I was surprised [...]

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