The Fairly Quiet Gardener Blog
I Love the Golden Hour
It is just after 8:00 pm and the sun has emerged from behind the clouds. The fresh green of spring is bathed in the last golden rays of the day and the garden is glowing.
High Summer Twilight
Gazing through the dining room windows, I watch the light soften and fade. The garden is bathed in high summer twilight. Smoke from summer forest fires fills the valley and intensifies the atmospheric perspective of the scene. I can just see the hazy outline of the buttes that stand in the distance. A robin touches down on the grass and the resident birds come home to bed down in the brambles.
Growing Pumpkins From Your Halloween Jack-o’-Lanterns
After Halloween last year, we took the pumpkins out back to one of our available garden beds. They're still fairly new with nothing permanently planted yet but I have been enriching the soil with compost, seasoned manure, and grass clippings. I chucked the pumpkins high in the air and each crashed down and split open (that was for fun, not a necessary step).