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

[nebulous_realms]

Hey Kimberly! Your garden looks amazing! I have a community garden plot - first time I have plants in actual soil - and it looks to be doing pretty decently for a first-timer. Although I should have invested in a better cage for my roma tomato plant, as it leaning precariously to one side! And I probably could have added some fertilizer to the soil before I transplanted all of my crops, but it's alright. I'll do better next year.

I wanted to ask - you mentioned previously an app you use for connecting conservatives to each other in their local area. Didn't it have some truncated form of the word "Liberty" in there? I'm not strongly conservative at all, but I'm looking to meet more people in my area and think the app could broaden my outreach for new friends beyond meetup events in the major metro area, which largely expose me to the more liberal populace.