Comments on Ecological Gardening: Spring Dispatches from the Backyard

Hi Janet, Thanks for visiting. Your blog looks goo...

2011-05-17T06:35:27.868-07:00

Hi Janet,
Thanks for visiting. Your blog looks good. I'll enjoy visiting it, since Scottish gardening is new to me.

Our neighbours think we're a bit mad going out...

2011-05-17T03:12:44.364-07:00

Our neighbours think we're a bit mad going out b torchlight to garden, coollect some of the slus etc. And life in the garden looks so different atnight.
Lovely site Tomas. It's so understated(ie not full of photos like mine!) and it's beautifully written.I shall enjoy exploring and learning.

Hi Thomas, That's really funny. I've neve...

2011-05-16T11:36:05.284-07:00

Hi Thomas,

That's really funny. I've never used compost tea. Does it really work?

A beautiful post! I, too, was gardening 'afte...

2011-05-16T07:26:44.732-07:00

A beautiful post! I, too, was gardening 'after hours' and actually had a police car pull up and ask me what I was doing. He looked rather confused when I tried to explain that the bacteria and fungus in the compost tea I had brewed can be killed by sunlight, so are best applied at night. I think it was crazy enough to be plausible.

Happy gardening!

Thomas

Hi Garden Girl, yes, my neighbors are a delight. T...

2011-05-15T06:39:00.186-07:00

Hi Garden Girl, yes, my neighbors are a delight. They are having to move soon, but have invited me to bicycle over to visit their new backyard--I might post about that. Thanks for the good words.

Don, I do look forward to reading the book, after ...

2011-05-15T06:35:31.197-07:00

Don, I do look forward to reading the book, after grades are turned in!

From the sound of your crops, I think I have acreage envy. It's been rainy and cold here, too.

Jean, lucky you to have wild strawberries--which reminds me of that Bergman film--and it is interesting that they'd have different tastes. When mine bear, I'll let you know how they are.

What a beautiful post Adrian ~ so evocative of the...

2011-05-14T18:34:56.484-07:00

What a beautiful post Adrian ~ so evocative of the joy and pleasure found in working one's own little plot of land.

How fortunate you are having a kindred-spirit neighbor, and a bff toddler next door.

Gorgeous post! I experienced something similar, t...

2011-05-13T20:24:33.536-07:00

Gorgeous post! I experienced something similar, though it was planting bare-root strawberries in a light snow on May Day. They're coming around now, but the neighbors, and even my wife, were questioning my sanity.

Jeff

http://eighthacrefarm.blogger.com

Adrian, I hope your strawberries settle in and gro...

2011-05-13T18:42:41.201-07:00

Adrian, I hope your strawberries settle in and grow fat and happy. Fragaria virginiana grows wild on my property, and I love the flavor of those little berries. I'm always fascinated by the fact that I seem to have a number of different varieties that differ subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) in color and shape. They all have that amazing intense flavor, though. :-) -Jean

I think my comment got lost when Blogspot crashed....

2011-05-13T15:57:44.311-07:00

I think my comment got lost when Blogspot crashed. And I can't remember quite what I said. I think I talked about the raspberry cuttings that I planted last month and that are budding out. And I said something about pruning the grapevine I planted last year to one stem for a trunk. Later this year, I'll put up a trellis.

I finally got the potatoes in today! With all the rain we

Happy digging and planting to you, Carole.

2011-05-10T18:50:38.739-07:00

Happy digging and planting to you, Carole.

Don't you hate when you work so hard and then ...

2011-05-10T18:44:22.556-07:00

Don't you hate when you work so hard and then the squirrels come and rearrange everything? They make me crazy :)

I can just picture you out in the moonlight, planting your new treasures. I just two boxes of bare-root trees today, so that may be me tomorrow night.