Waxing Moon 93% After Full Moon

If you want to plant above ground plants or transplants, hurry. I plant by moon signs: the secret's out. I've tried going against the moon sign with disastrous results. The garden bedspread needs to be tucked in around 2012 efforts. Make certain your mulch contains no seed heads. I cannot shop tonight but will soon line the back seat or trunk with a cotton sheet. When you remove the mulch from your vehicle, the stray bits are easy to shake off from the cotton.

Garden Plot #1 Pocket Garden

In the middle of the town I live in. Decided to check hail storm damage. Found a work clipboard turned upside down on the ground. Retrieved it and put it under the shed roof. Looked for the work clipboard but didn't find it. Plentiful lettuce, several varieties. Clipped several leaves from the bottom. Seed heads on the brussels sprouts, so removed them. Kale or collards have gone to seed but didn't touch them. Next work day: Tuesday morning. However, minimal hail damage.

Garden Plot #1 and #2

#1-didn't attend last Sunday to snip lettuce, plan to attend today. #2 Yesterday rain during the day but managed to plant dwarf marigold, white petunias, two dill transplants, one tomato. Sowed radish and lettuce. Traded a fellow plot neighbor white petunias for a bush tomato.

At midnight last night, a hail storm struck and I've never heard such noise, sounded like the end of the world. Violent hail for about 15-20 minutes. Of course I thought of the new plants. This morning, #2 plot had not received hail at all. Home plot did receive hail, but minimal damage.

Plot Acquired

No, not a novel, a garden! Second plot acquired and also rain, rain, all weekend. However, soil and compost are ready and will go in tonight, 5:30 pm EDT. The strategy will be square foot gardening. Long range plan is to garden with row covers over winter. Observing microclimates may be included.

Second garden plot

In the work! will update Sunday. The first garden is in mid-town, limited access, raised beds, and the only plants for now are those that grow above the ground. The second garden plot-may be belowground.

Farm Class

Ended with the decision that commuting 80 miles round trip during 2012 summer is not realistic, so farewell, farmer's path, for now. May be my family is one of the few who is somewhat indifferent to rising gasoline prices. We did sign up for a small garden plot in town. We're waiting to hear about a second opportunity.

From Toby Hemenway's Gaia's Garden

The movement toward sustainable landscaping is heating up.  Gardeners are increasingly burying their resource-guzzling, zero-habitat lawns under native-plant gardens, wildlife-attracting thickets, and sun-dappled woodlands. It’s an encouraging trend, this movement towards more ecologically sound, nature-friendly yards.