Open Post and Garden/Cat Update, August 2022

[kimberlysteele]

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Baby oak is getting larger!  I planted coneflowers and borage around him.

Rose of Sharon -- I pruned both of mine very hard this year and multiple times.  It has lots of buds.  Hopefully next month's photos will feature blooms.

Daylily garden with Russian sage in the background and a raspberry bush in the foreground.  Last year I made raspberry cordial -- raspberry juice boiled with sugar and vodka.  Probably will do the same this year.  It makes a great Christmas gift.


Tommy the neighborhood kitty.


This year's tomatoes, planted alongside calendula, parsley, and dill.


Borage trying to do a hostile takeover of the lettuce patch.



Hostas, fern, Eastern cedar, coneflower, ferns, catmint, and grasses.  


Shadow Shadilay.

Ashley Amore giving the Bette Davis eyes because he wants food.

Comments

Re: Composting question

[(Anonymous)]

Randomactsofkarmasc,
I've been washing the eggshells and crushing them into tiny pieces...the bears probably won't care about those. Bears are more interested in kitchen scraps. A friend of mine had his composter torn apart by a hungry bear.

Thank you for the ash and pH info. I need to figure out how to test the soil to see what it needs and what the pH is.