I updated my Sanity Project page. This page is the story of our garden, from 2020 onward. Today I updated the page from Fall 2022 to the end of this past winter. Also updated the “future plans” section.
Posts in: Gardening
Isn’t this some beautiful kale and chard?
My lovely wife Rachel made a video of our garden this morning. (Yours truly is the cameraman.) I hope she continues doing these. She knows more about what’s happening than I do and—let’s be honest—who wouldn’t rather listen to her talk instead of me?
The pileated woodpecker seems to be a regular at our feeders now. She has a distinctive, sharp call as she flies into the yard. Also, we do believe she is a “she”, because she does not appear to have the red cheek stripe that males have.
The honeybees are loving the lavender right now.
We have a gooseberry!
Rachel just harvested this huge pile of lettuce from one end of our raised beds and it didn’t even make a dent. It’s salad season!
Starlings…sheesh. Not only are they:
- An invasive species whose introduction can be blamed on Shakespeare fanatics,
- Bullies, and
- Absolute devourers of seed,
their chicks are noisy and needy, despite being as big as the adults. We don’t harm them, but we don’t love them either.
A crow has showed up in our backyard a few times now to eat seed. We’re that much closer to our goal of making friends with a corvid…
Beautiful lavender. Also, the grapes are doing something new! Turns out they’re flowering. What I noticed before were not actually grapes but flower blooms. (Which I would have know had I thought about it a bit more carefully. What can I say? I was excited.)
