Category Archives: Gardening
Garden Update: Adventure On Planet Earth
Since she does this so much better than I do, I’m leaving the latest garden update to my wife, over on her excellent blog at adventureonplanetearth.com.
Garden Update: Berry Flowers, Corn Bed, Green Door
Strawberry blossoms
All of the berry bushes and plants have begun to flower. We have about fifty strawberries plants scattered around the garden. We heard that they can be invasive (and what’s better than invasive food), so we were somewhat concerned that they would spread far beyond their designated areas. But this has never happened. So my wife transplanted many of them to a better location in hopes that they will spread and be more productive. We harvest around 1 gallon of strawberries per year.
Spring 2021 Garden Update
Spring has arrived and the perennials in our garden have begun to leaf, bud, and bloom.
Creeping Charlie
The first signs of color came from the vibrant creeping charlie (glechoma hederacea) that we’ve encouraged to grow as a ground cover for our little backyard food forest.
It is true that creeping charlie is “invasive”. But invasive is what we needed for an attractive replacement cover for the patchy lawn that was once here. And unlike dandelions and violets, creeping charlie has never invaded our raised beds. It also has stood up fairly well to occasional foot traffic.