You might remember last year’s big announcement of a new category of posts: how-it-started, how-it’s-going. I had planned to follow up the inaugural post, which showed a bare garden in spring, with a harvest-abundance photo. It was not to be.
This year, I travelled at a different season and got the harvest shot all right, but minus the abundance. Edmonton had a hot, dry summer so the garden’s output was, well, subdued. Even so, I could still smell the dill.
How it started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How it kinda went.
The same garden also produced some morning glories along the garage wall. The missing “how it started” photo for these would have been a patch of wet dirt with the seeds hidden from view. Sometimes we just have to imagine that how-it-started state, taking it on faith that what might seem like a meagre harvest is, in fact, a pretty big deal under the circumstances.
Since I was away most of the summer, my garden was left to its own devices. The perennials took over and presented me with glorious swathes of colour upon my return. Since it rained a lot while I was away, the grass was green-green-green and long, despite being cut by my kind neighbour. Now, I notice that most people, including me, are letting their grass grow longer between cuts. Looks nice.
Judith – Some yard experts say we mostly cut our grass too short – the roots dry out without protection from the sun. Tidy needn’t mean short/scalped. I’m glad your yard welcomed you home.
Those morning glories will, in time, spread like crazy and be very nice at blooming time
Jim R – Good to know. I’ll check again in a year or two and see what’s what.
But… they won’t allow anything else to grow nearby, even another kind of morning glory. Learned from experience, but it was in a huge long balcony planter. My only option now is to dig the whole planter out thoroughly and replace soil — start again with say, clematis.
Barbara – Highly territorial, are they? I didn’t know that.