Life of a sunflower patch
Labor Day has come and gone and there’s only two weeks left of summer. I can tell.
The sun, still bright and yellow, is no longer directly overhead at mid-day. Most of the perennials need a good pruning and many of the summer annuals are spent. The garden looks tired in general.
For the next couple of [...]
Garden Tip: Wringing new life from old soaker hose
I love soaker hose — the weepy pipe made from recycled tires. It’s cheap (usually less than $2 per foot), does a great job of applying water directly to plant roots, and lasts for years.
Unfortunately, over time the pores in soaker hose start to clog with mineral deposits, dirt and tiny insects, making it more [...]
Sunflower update
June was an unusually cool month here in the San Diego area, so the sunflowers really seemed to stall out. Then the last week of June the clouds disappeared, the days heated up and bang! — The sunflowers took off.
» This is the garden on June 7, 2009
Here it is on June 30th, 2009:
And here [...]
Sunflower field update
Just a quick Monday update on what’s up around the ranch. Mostly it’s the (mini) sunflower field.
Here it is just two weeks ago:
And here it is today:
(I added a purple-haired teenage daughter to the picture so you can get an idea of proportion)
They’re growing pretty fast as we approach the summer solstice. One of the [...]
Watching them eat like birds
I often wonder how the phrase “eats like a bird” became synonymous with consuming dainty portions of food.
Having spent more than a few hours watching birds at the feeder a few yards off of my rear deck, I can attest to the fact that birds are, for the most part, noisy, messy, and consume just [...]
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