Resting Up
Traveling can be tiring! We’re one week into our two and a half week trip to Ohio and we’ve been busy. On Friday we spent the entire day babysitting our nieces and nephew along with a few of their friends. Yesterday we put in a LONG day of work and now we’re TIRED! I wouldn’t leave you without a post when I’m taking a day off, it always means there will be a photo of some cute furry animal that lives the high life at Chiot’s Run. These are our two indoor cats, Samson & Soafie, enjoying an afternoon nap in the living room.
Hopefully you can take some time to rest up this weekend!
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Hot Vegetable Season
It’s that time of year for Northern gardener to transition to their warm season vegetables. Before we left for Ohio, I pulled out the cool weather crops that bolted in our heat wave and planted peppers and tucked tiny lettuce plants in their shade. It won’t be long until I’m harvesting handfuls of peppers from the garden!
It certainly is great to these classic summer garden plants start to take center stage. I almost can’t wait to eat the first ‘Kind of the North’ and ‘Lipstick’ pepper or the first ripe tomato.
I do have one tiny green tomato in the garden, it’s not from a plant I started. When I went to the Fedco tree sale in April, I picked up a ‘Siberan’ tomato plant. It’s certainly living up to it’s name. I haven’t brought it inside at all and we’ve had many night down into the 30’s. It’s flourishing away, blooming and setting tiny little fruit. You can be I’ll be saving seeds from this lovely little plant, I think it might become a staple in my garden!
What warm weather vegetable is your favorite?
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Friday Favorite: Labeled Plants
One of the things I really enjoy about visiting botanical gardens is that many of the plants have labels. I find myself taking photos of plants and their labels in order to hopefully add a few of my favorite varieties to my own garden someday. Here are a few that caught my eye this past Tuesday when we visited Kingwood Center.
Even though I always do this with hopes of adding a few of these plants to my garden, it never really seems to materialize. At least I know which plants are in my photos, which comes in handy sometimes for plant identification and for selling photos.
Have you ever spotted any must have plants while visiting a botanical garden?
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Waging War
Here at Chiot’s Run we’re waging ware on the quack grass! The big garden in back is our main focus at the moment as the edges of it were being overtaken by it.
There are ways of managing quack grass organically. You can follow a tilling regiment for a year and eradicate it that way. Keeping the grass mown short around your garden will also help. I’m using pigs to help get rid of it here.
There’s no way we’ll get rid of this grass this year, no doubt this war will continue for years to come.
Of course the pigs don’t eat all of it, but they root it up nicely and I’ve been picking it out of the soil by the bucket full. I dry it and burn it, revenge at it’s finest!
Do you have a weed that you battle more than others?
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Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH
Yesterday, we joined up with my sister and her kids and spent the day walking around Kingwood Center in Mansfield, OH. It was a wonderful garden, if you’re ever in Mansfield, I highly recommend taking the time to visit the gardens. Not only is it a beautiful place to spend a day, it’s also a very inexpensive place. It costs only $5 per car as a parking fee. Here are some images from our day.
There are so many wonderful gardens throughout the country, thankfully I’ve been able to visit many. Now I’ve checked another off my list. I’d love to hear about any gardens you’ve visited that you love so I can add them to my list of places to go.
What’s your favorite garden to visit in your area or when you travel?
