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In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it. ~Frank McKinney Hubbard Plot 63, Roseville Community Garden on Sunday, May 26, 2013 (Click photo for larger image.) Memorial Day weekend, five full weeks since Plot #63 at Roseville Community Garden was planted, and the garden’s progress is […] As I learned very quickly last year, when you have a garden, you are often at the mercy of Mother Nature. This was true again in the very early morning hours of Tuesday, May 14, 2013. On Sunday, May 12, the National Weather Service had issued a frost advisory for the area on Monday morning. […] May 4th was the ‘official’ Opening Day at the Roseville Community Garden, and I’ve got my plot 95% complete! I was anxious to get a jump on the season, so on April 6th – the first Saturday the garden was open for ‘pre-season’ activity – I arrived bright & early, hauled in a half dozen […] Yikes! It’s already Labor Day weekend. Where did August go? A crazy August schedule with a client job has kept my “free time” for blogging to a minimum, and thus it’s been more than a month since my last garden update post. So there’s some serious catching up to do. The first “replant” after the […] Woke up to a seasonably warm, muggy, mid-summer Saturday morning. Grabbed a cup of coffee, “opened office” under the patio umbrella and finished up some client work left over from the week. I had every intention of doing this and a few household chores before heading down to the garden to weed and finish trimming […] Another quick “Storm Survivor” pictorial post. This one is of my garden zinnias, which held up quite well to the wind and hail storm of July 18, with only a battered leaf here and there. According to Wikipedia, zinnia are popular flowering plants with varied habits, allowing for uses in several parts of a garden, […] Despite the damaging hail and summer storms, the sunflower crop at Roseville Community Garden is doing well, keeping the pollinators happy. Because sunflowers “do it” with a little help from their friends! Here are a few photos taken before an afternoon thunderstorm on July 23, 2012.
[…] In light of the damage done to Plot 63 at Roseville Community Garden by the July 18th hail-storm, I replanted about half the area of the garden on the afternoon of Sunday, July 22. A chance to “reboot” the plot, take advantage of some of the things I learned already this year, and salvage the […] |