Not So Crafty

Category: Gardening

  • Wordless Wednesday Morning Glories My Beautiful Nemisis

  • Praying Mantis

    It’s been a while since I’ve spotted any praying mantis in the garden. That’s why I happy to see this late bloomer on my fading dahlias. He seems content to hang out there for now.

  • Wordless Wednesday Yellow

  • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Harvesting Hops

    My ten hop plants flourished all summer long. I inherited these plants along with the community plot. They are rhizomes and started to appear in late May. After six to eight weeks they spread upward and entangled themselves into the fence. Around late July they started to form little cones which reached maturity after three…

  • Doing a Little Rain Dance

    Usually, the first sign of fall out here is the hopeful but false promise of rain by the weather channel. The weather experts always predict rain at the end of the week only to find yourself sitting under the hot, cloudless sky seven days later. That’s why I got so excited when I saw dark…

  • Wordless Wednesday Harvest

  • Procrastinators Bloom Day Post

    Oops, it looks like I missed the official August 15 Bloom Day deadline. I was so busy planning the fall garden that I forgot all about it. My community plot is sadly lacking in flowers at the moment but the backyard has plenty of summer flowers. African Marigold Chrysanthemum Marguerite Daisy Nicotiana Robert Johnson Most…

  • Name That Succulent

    My friend Mitch moved last week to New York. I’ve been eying his collection of succulents for a while, so I was thrilled when he offered me some of his plants. I fit as many as I could in my car but I had to leave a few behind. I don’t have a lot of…

  • Uninvited

    I’ve been waiting for this giant Berkley Tie-Dye tomato to finally ripen only to find this little critter snacking on it. It is the result of the white cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae). It’s probably the most prolific butterfly in the garden. While I enjoy seeing the wisps of white flutter around the garden I do…

  • Lisa’s Country Garden

    Shortly after I had started gardening, I was hanging out with my friend when I suddenly noticed her plethora of plants. She had large, bushy plants throughout the house. I guess I never noticed until I started gardening myself how effortlessly she was growing plants. Her green thumb has extended to her backyard as well.…