yard – Page 4 – ROAD TRIP

Did my garden miss me?

August 6, 2022August 6, 2022Posted in GardenTagged colorado, community garden, cucumbers, denver, Denver urban gardens, squash, tomatoes, vacation, vegetables, yard, zucchini2 Comments

I went out of town for two weeks, which is a long time in the life of a garden in the middle of summer! I returned to a few surprises.

Yard garden

I left my yard garden un-tended as many plants were going to seed or seemed to be struggling. I left the few plants I believed in within range of my automatic sprinklers (controlled by the building), and said a prayer. I returned to find some things ready (ish) to harvest despite my absence!

In general the yard is really greening up. I’m letting it go wild a bit this year to discover what it naturally wants to do before I make any modifications.

Harvest? Zuchini appears rotten at the end but the slugs enjoyed it.

Garden plots

A small village of people looked after my plots’ watering needs while I was gone, and I was pleasantly surprised to find all of my flowers doing better than when I left, squash development, healthy Swiss chard, and some baby peppers!

In short- no, my garden did not miss me.

S02.E08.Alaskan Yard Wildlife Encounters

November 12, 2020March 21, 2021Posted in Alaska, wildlifeTagged Alaska, bears, data, deer, juneau, wildlife, yard1 Comment

Staying home all the time can be boring, why not spend the time collecting data about wildlife?

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Season 2 – Ep. 1: fungus amongus

September 21, 2019Posted in New HomeownerTagged autumn, juneau, mushrooms, yard1 Comment

Temperatures are dropping, rain is falling, and everything is soggy. It’s that time of year that my yard transitions from summer sprout to autumn rot, and that means a multitude of mushrooms have joined the party.

I have almost no practical mushroom knowledge, except that some are delicious, some are poisonous, and they make you grow by and strong if you are a plumber named Mario or Luigi. I also know that the root word myco- usually means we are talking about fungus. Mycology. Mycorrhizae.

So, I could be sitting on a gold mine, or a death trap. Either way, here are some of my current crop which seem to have sprung up overnight, and my unofficial identification of each.

Tall Skinny Creepies. These remind me of the “poor unfortunate souls” in the little mermaid. Or zombie fingers.