It is four weeks before the last average frost day (April 10) in Georgia, which means two things…
1. I can look forward to wearing my Birkies without socks for a change. ;- )
2. Peppers and tomatoes had better be started by now in order to plant them out in the garden by [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
They followed me home…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, grandpa on March 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Following in his footsteps
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, grandpa, wisdom on August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The more time I spend with my grandfather, the more I realize that I am a lot like him, and perhaps becoming more like him with time. I know I have inherited many of his eccentricities. I hope I’ve inherited some of his many talents. And I’m afraid I’ve inherited not a few of his [...]
The photographic evidence
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been meaning to share these pictures since….forever….but since I was busy IN the garden, I didn’t have time to blog or share pictures OF the garden. However, I did take my camera with me and got some shots to share with you.
I’ve posted them all in a web album, which you can view here.
http://picasaweb.google.com/pnearly/Garden08
The [...]
I go to the farm, and see what’s what
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, gardening on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday afternoon, when the day had cooled a little, I was feeling up to a little excursion…
Wait a minute, that’s not exactly the way this story starts…
Yesterday afternoon my aunt called to give me the report on “what’s happening at the farm”. [She's been so good about keeping up with the watering and the weeding [...]
Breaking up is hard to do.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, grandpa on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, when talking about seedlings, it’s not exactly hard to do, but it is delicate and time-consuming work!
Our goal, of course, having started our seedlings, established them to the true-leaf stage, and mixed our soil, is to separate them and put them in their own pots so that they can have room to grow. In [...]
We don’t make dirt…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, grandpa on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…We make dirt better!
Or, in the wise words of my precious 5-year-old nephew, “Aunt Trish, soil is a better word.”
And he’s right! In fact, in our seeding and potting mixture, there’s no dirt at all!
As I’ve already mentioned, I’ve learned from grandpa that there’s a lot more to successful gardening than seeds+soil+water= plants. I [...]
Where I’ve been…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, grandpa, greenhouse on March 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Okay, I’ve been promising updates and pictures for a long time, and I’m going to do my best to get them out to you! If it’s any consolation, I think about blogging all the time! As I’m doing all these wonderful gardening activitites with my grandfather, I’m composing blog posts the whole while, trying to [...]
The heralds of Spring
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening on March 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Last week was Spring Break. Now, I’m almost 40, so please don’t conjure up images of beach parties and beer binges. Those days are long over for me! Instead, Spring Break means no work, no evening classes, and for one brief week, no reading academic papers. Some students spend that week catching up on their [...]
Dropping in to say hello!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coyotes, gardening, WoW on February 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hi everyone! It’s midterms, and I’m swamped again! :- )
Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by this week! BW, I’m sooooo glad you are doing better! I appreciated your comments so much!
A couple of quick followups:
I actually SAW a coyote in the woods behind my house this morning. It was surreal, to say the least. It [...]
God gave us spinach in the winter
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gardening, greens on January 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today was the first sunny, non-frozen, weekend day in a long while, so I went out to my grandfather’s and gardened some. At first I had just planned on picking some turnips for myself, but then I saw that the collards were so pretty, so I picked a few of those. And then I checked [...]
