Every morning I take my dogs for a stroll around lower Columbia City. If it’s been raining and the road is wet, I wear a headlamp so that I can step over any worms that I pass along the route.
I worry about the worms. So many of them get smashed by the cars that pass [...]
Archive for the ‘Neuroticisms’ Category
Wondering About Worms…
Posted in Neuroticisms on February 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Curcurbit Confusion
Posted in Neuroticisms, Planting Tips, Pumpkins, tagged Planting Tips, Pumpkins on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Quiz question of the day: What’s this?
It could be just about anything, because I am impatient.
A few weeks back I planted two seed starting trays full of pumpkins, winter squash, summer squash, cucumbers and watermelons. And then they didn’t sprout in what I believed to be a timely fashion. In fact, they convinced me altogether [...]
No Internet = Neurotic Blogger, and Radish Overcrowding
Posted in Neuroticisms, Planting Tips, tagged Planting Tips on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Would anyone care to guess just how neurotically nuts it makes me when the internet service is down and I can’t update my blog? Thankfully we are up and running this morning, so I’ll be filling you in on the progress of the week in between my garden chores today.
A lesson in radish overcrowding
This [...]
Heirloom Vegetables – Why grow them?
Posted in Heirloom Vegetables, Neuroticisms, Resources, tagged Heirloom Vegetables on April 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday as I was telling my boss which varieties of heirloom tomatoes I was planning to buy at the Columbia County Master Gardener’s plant sale. He’s grown heirloom tomatoes before (purchased at the same sale) without particularly spectacular results. He wanted to know why I was so hot to grow them.
The truth of the matter [...]
Should I water?
Posted in Neuroticisms, Watering, tagged Raised Beds, Watering on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I think I need to take a day off from watering.
It’s a balmy 52 degrees outside today. A cold wind is blowing. The forecast is for clouds and cool weather for the next few days, with showers possible.
I have watered every day for the past few weeks because I still had seeds germinating. But just [...]
Soil Test 2
Posted in Neuroticisms, Planting Tips, tagged Soil on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The low phosphorus reading on last week’s soil test concerned me, but after reading Raye’s comment about washed diary manure usually containing plenty of phosphorus, I decided to test again before adding anything.
I’m glad I did.
I took a second test with a new test kit yesterday, and the results were not the same. This test [...]
