October Gardening
November is such an iffy month. Some years you can count on having time to prepare your garden during November, but some years the cold and snow makes gardening extremely uncomfortable, if not impossible.
- Empty your rain barrels if you haven’t already done so.
- Clean and oil your tools so that they will be rust protected during winter and ready to go next spring.
- Bring in the hummingbird feeder and fill up the other feeders. It’s this time of you when you can attract some interesting winter visitors. A bit of seed, a few peanuts and some suet will attract those brave little birds that stay all winter.
- Stop feeding your houseplants and reduce watering for the winter. Houseplants like to rest a bit during winter. Overwatering can occur if you are not careful.
- Put the leaf chopper away for the season and get the snowblower conditioned and ready for use.
- Water your evergreens so they don’t go dry into winter. Make sure that dry area under the eaves gets a good soaking before freezing.
- Make notes of what worked and what didn’t work in the garden this year. By the time spring comes, you will have forgotten.
Jottings contains some articles I've written for the monthly newsletter of Barrie's Garden Club and other projects. I did the newsletter for 6 years and have quite a collection of "fillers." I also write just for me. What better place to share them than on my own site. I hope you enjoy them.
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one. -- Robert Brault
This is a collection of neat ideas and crazy tricks that I've collected from various sources. Many are amusing, and most are useful. We gardeners just love to learn neat little ways of doing our gardening jobs more effectively. My most popular talk is just that: "Hints and Tricks."
Most of the hints I've used myself or know someone who will vouch for them. All of them are fun to read and almost as much fun to do.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition-- Carl Sagan
This is a miscellaneous section of all the odds and sods of information I've collected and would like to share. I've found most of the information in magazines and on the internet or in the many gardening books I can't resist buying!
You'll also find some of my favourite links on the Gardening Info page.
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. --Marshall McLuhan, 1964
My Garden
This section includes pictures of my small urban garden along with photos of the plants in that garden. This is a show-off section. Remember --gardeners don't take pictures of their gardens unless they look good! My garden is lovely, but I admit that it's not always as good as it looks in the pictures I choose to display!
I'm really more of a plant collector than a gardener and love the new or the unusual. Because the garden is small, I change plants often. Over the years, I've had quite a collection of the good, the bad and the ugly of garden plants.
The garden and digital cameras complement each other. Between my husband, my son-in-law and me, we've taken hundreds of pictures -- too many for a web page. But I've put up some that I like and hope that you enjoy them, too.
