Monday, May 26, 2025
Spring 2025 Tulips on Lill
These are always one of the main reasons we love our street so much in late spring and summer. I cant take credit for these Tulips, these are all from my neighbors. They never dig their bulbs up after the season, so over the last decade or so that they have lived here, what probably once was a modest patch of spring tulips has become an entire block of them. She adds some newer heirlooms when she comes across something really unique. And some of these I can homestly say Ive never seen before.
Tomato shift
This year when we originally set up the blocks and planks for the tomato pots, I did not consider that the pots further "south" along the fence would only get a fraction of the afternoon sun that thr others were going to get. In the begining I was using grow lights continously to suppliment. Eventually it was obvious that we would need to take wverytjing down, re measure, cut new wood planks if necessary and shift everything "north" by about 10 feet. You can see the differnce immediately and it only took me half a day over the memorial weekend holiday.
Herbs...
Every year we do one half whiskey barrel full of assort herbs. This one in paticular has several diffrent species of mint and then the usual cooking herbs, thyme, rosemary, tarragon.
We do the Basils in one of the ground plots because they grow so large and eventually overtake all the other herbs that grow closer to the ground. Also, she likes to have 3-4 varieties of Basil, same with the mints.
This year we did have a neighbor cut a whiskey barrel in half, at first we were going to do 2 herb patches, but since its our last year here I decided to try and do a small strawberry patch ONE MORE TIME...
Sunday, May 25, 2025
2025 Pepper Patch
Initially, on the last few days of April we planted Nasturtiums and sweet peas in the back so that they would be able to grow up the trellis. In front of them, about 1 week later we did an assortment of all "hot" peppers, think Habanero, Tobasco and Serrano.
In front of those we did a line of the "baby" sunflowers, and finally at the end, MORE DILL...
The time frame from the original planting and photos of the first sprouts of Dill and Nasturtiums to the last photos showing the pepper plants and baby aunflowers is about 30 days.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Mama Cardinal
Of the two, she seems to be both the most ambitious, and the most elusive. Generally we can tell when she is downstairs when she begins to do her "chirping".
As for the patio, they LOVE the dried fruits we put out, eapecially the cherries and cranberries.
Cardinal
We have a resident couple that live directly behind us. The two have lived there since we moved in, and all these yeares later will be here when we leave. The male is the most ambitious of the pair, he is out scouring for food daily from about 4-430am till dark. Thankfully years previously they found their way into our little world and now that spring time is here we expect to see them almost on a daily basis.
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