Caroline's Garden Daybook

Outside my window..... it is a dark and stormy night
What's blooming... Milkweed (the fragrance is heavenly) Day Lilies, Bee Balm, Sweet William
I am harvesting.....peas, greens, radishes, herbs, onions
One of my favorite garden things..... butterflies
I am reading.....A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Journeys Across America by Laura Ingalls Wilder
My favorite garden quote this week is....."Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Creatures I saw in my garden this week..... dragonflies and butterflies
To-dos for the rest of the week.....weed
Here is a garden picture I'm sharing with you...

Caroline's Garden Daybook

Outside my window..... the sun is setting
I am planning.....to catch up on chores this weekend
I am harvesting.....pea pods, lettuce, strawberries, herbs  
One of my favorite garden things.....  pretty window boxes
I am reading.....The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
My favorite garden quote this week is....."I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation.  It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green."  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from and Old Manse
Creatures I saw in my garden this week..... wild turkeys with chicks and The Raccoon
To-dos for the rest of the week.....get to the community garden to weed
Here is a garden picture I'm sharing with you...

Caroline's Garden Daybook

Outside my window..... my roses are blooming
I am planning.....to visit the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens sometime soon

I am harvesting.....lots of radishes, strawberries and the first pea pods
One of my favorite garden things.....hummingbirds
I am reading.....Seasonal Herbs from Caprilands: Step by Step in the Herb Garden by Adelma Grenier Simmons
My favorite garden quote this week is....."It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought." ~James Douglas, Down Shoe Lane
Creatures I saw in my garden this week..... A big, brash raccoon. I also saw a mama turkey with her little chicks in a meadow.
To-dos for the rest of the week.....weed, weed, weed and weed some more.
Here is a garden picture I'm sharing with you...

Caroline's Daybook

Outside my window..... are knocked-over trash cans raccoons keep raiding

I am planning..... to clean up the mess after I post this daybook. On a prettier note, perhaps I'll see the Kelleher Rose Garden in full bloom this week (or rather wishing with all my heart!)

I am harvesting.....lots of radishes

One of my favorite garden things.....watering with a watering can

I am reading.....back issues of The Garden Gate which I found at our library's magazine swap.

My favorite garden quote this week is....."Perhaps the most radical thing you can do in our time is to start turning over the soil, loosening it up for the crops to settle in, and then stay home and tend them." - Rebecca Solnit

Creatures I saw in my garden this week..... a water frog and a butterfly. I saw a deer in my neighborhood. I didn't see raccoons but my son did. I saw the mess they left behind.

To-dos for the rest of the week.....visit the community garden, share radish seeds with Dad, thin lettuce, raccoon proof trash cans. Any advice? I've tried tying lids shut and bungee cords. Raccoons still get into them.

Here is a garden picture I'm sharing with you...

Caroline's Garden Daybook

Outside my window..... the birds are singing

I am planning..... to enlarge my home garden by reclaiming some earth from overgrown bushes and brambles.

I am harvesting.....herbs, lettuce, onions, radishes 

I am reading.....Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine S. White  

My favorite garden quote this week is.....

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."  ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

One of my favorite garden things.....Spring Iris

Creatures I saw in my garden this week..... a tiny red salamander

To-dos for the rest of the week.....visit the community garden to weed and water, plant the asparagus roots and red onions.

Here is a garden picture I'm sharing with you...

Caroline's Garden Daybook

Outside my window..... the grass is growing longer.

I am planning..... to plant a Three Sisters Garden, to finish sowing seeds, plant a pumpkin patch.

I am harvesting.....chives and baby lettuce.

I am reading.....Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine S. White

My favorite garden quote this week is.....

"After all, Eden was garden... the garden is a place to go for quiet contemplation, a source not only of food but also of spiritual renewal and intimate contact with life's most basic processes."  ~Ed Smith; The Vegetable Gardener's Bible

One of my favorite garden things.....eating peas straight from the vine

Creatures I saw in my garden this week were.....a snake and a nesting bird.

To-dos for the rest of the week.....plant, weed and mulch.

 

Here is a garden picture I am sharing with you.... 

Caroline's Garden Daybook

Outside my window..... thunderstorms rumble.

I am planning..... to finish the weeding this week and get to work on my community plot before the weekend.

I am harvesting.....some herbs- cilantro, mint, lemon balm, oregano, sage.

I am reading.....Herb Companion back issues

My favorite garden quote this week is....."In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."~Abram L. Urban
One of my favorite garden things.....is the smell of Lilacs.
Creatures I saw in my garden this week were.....worms and bumblebees
To-dos for the rest of the week.....weed and weed some more; start more seeds, fix bean tipi.
Here is a garden picture I am sharing with you....