Remember the abundance we had last year?
This is the total for this year.
I’ll be planting in the ground from now on.
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Category: a day in this life
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This was the end of my driveway last summer. Those are two Bradford pear trees with a little fruiting pear tree that I planted in between them.
Bradford pear trees grow quickly and are often used here by developers to replace what they have removed while building. But, they’re brittle, so they lose limbs easily in bad weather, and the flowers stink in the Spring. Fruit trees that don’t bear fruit make no sense to me, either.
I have planted real fruit in between the Bradfords that run down the property line between my yard and my neighbors on the left. Now, the fruiting pear tree will get more sun.
An odd thing about my Bradfords, too, is that they must have all been planted at the same time, but they get progressively small as they get further from the road.
Last Friday, we had a massive ice storm that knocked out the power all over our part of the state. Pine trees and other evergreens, including our neighbors cedar tree, magnolias and Bradford pears were snapping branches left and right. The Bradford at the end of the row, by the street, broke three time and finally gave it up.
Tree and limb guys are all over the place, making money hand over fist.
Three trucks of workers were next door,yesterday, cleaning up the neighbors’ yard. Then, they went down the street to do another yard. Before they got out of the neighborhood, Chuck caught them and they dumped ALL the wood chips they already had in the truck in our back yard, where we needed it so desperately to renew the labyrinth.
Then, they went to work on our mess.
In less than an hour, they finished. and we have another load of wood chips.
The entrance to the house looks empty, now.
And the mulch pile is impressive.
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See that little bit of pink? That’s the end of a color extravaganza that happened Wednesday as the sun went down. The light moved so fast, I didn’t have time to get my camera out to capture it.
It started with a blaring crash of hot pink and dusky purples that felt like a cymbal symphony to my eyes. Then trees loomed up and muted the whole thing. When I came around the curve and the sky opened back up, I found the violins and flutes of pale pink barely whispering across the grey kettle drums of clouds. One more curve and this.
Photographs never show the sky as magnificently as my eyes see it.
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It’s funny to me how your eye sees one thing and the camera sees something else.
I saw this:
But my camera saw this:
It’s all about perception.
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I planted garlic today!! I’m very excited. (I’m always excited when I plant stuff.)
Sow True Seeds has been advertising their garlic starts. I had it in my head that when we were in Asheville this week I would pick some up. But, on October 8th, they Tweeted that they were running through their supply and expected to be down to a single variety pretty soon. So, I called and ordered 3 varieties for them to hold for me until I could pick them up at the retail location
I got the Sampler, which was one hardneck and one softneck variety, and a softneck that intrigued me. The varieties are Red Toch (1/2 lb.), California Early and German Red (1/4 lb. each). The German Red is the hardneck.
Because I really didn’t think I needed a pound of garlic cloves, I have divided them into 4 packages, planting one in our winter lettuce bed and planning to give the same amount to 3 gardening friends.
The Red Toch (9 cloves) is across the back and halfway up the left side of the bed. The California Early (5) comes the rest of the way up the side. The German Red (4) goes across the top (house end) of the bed.
These are the instructions that came with the garlic.
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