Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
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From garden to garden: a photo diary from the corner of Columbia and Pacific. A gardening business with a passion for fascinating, collectible plants.
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
31m ago
Tuesday, 10 September 2024 Diane’s garden No Diane or Holly today, so we left some cucumbers for Diane and a biscuit for Holly. We tidied and watered the containers… Allan tidied the roadside garden… We both worked on the rather autumnally unkempt septic vault garden. It has reseeded into the gravel in front, so we ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
22h ago
Tuesday, 10 September 2024 We had planned on a seven day stretch of time off, until rain was forecast for Wednesday, so we worked today instead. However, first we returned to Aimee’s garden and nursery, which you can find just north of Cranberry Road. (I also found out I have been misspelling her name, which ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
2d ago
Monday, 9 September 2024 at home We’d had some lovely rain that refilled the water barrels but did not make them overflow. Contrary to my intention of starting to sift bin three of the compost bin, I didn’t actually do much in that bin at all. I started with the leaf bin instead, emptying and ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
3d ago
Accidentally missed a day by scheduling post for 6 P.M. not 6 A.M. so shifted it forward a day. Sunday, 8 September 2024 at home I spent the afternoon in the garden. While cutting back some Shasta daisies, I found a ho-mi (my favorite hand tool other than my clippers) that had been hiding among ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
4d ago
All is well. I accidentally missed a day by scheduling the time for P.M. instead of A.M. Will be back to normal tomorrow! Meanwhile, since I’m here…something I shared on other social media today: I look at local real estate because I like to see interiors of houses. This real estate listing blew my mind ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
5d ago
Friday, 6 September 2024 Norwood garden We did a checkup and tiny bit of weeding at the Norwood garden, two doors down. at home Skooter in the midmorning, on the sunporch… I read a quite wonderful novel called Villager. (It had to take preference over the non fiction book I started earlier, because Villager is ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
6d ago
at home Wednesday, 4 September 2024 It was indeed HOT (86 degrees F) so I stayed indoors till evening watering time, writing a week’s worth of blog posts and talking on the phone with Gwyneth for two hours. (Folks who know how phone-call-averse I am will know how much I treasure her friendship. She lives ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
1w ago
Tuesday, 3 September 2024 It had rained overnight, refilling the rain barrels. Bliss! I wouldn’t have to water the garden this evening. We went to work a day earlier than usual because the next two days are supposed to be near 80F. It was a lovely, cool, grey day without much wind, my favourite weather ..read more
Tangly Cottage Gardening Journal
1w ago
Monday, 2 September 2024 at home Quite wonderfully, the weather was cool and we’d had some rain. I went outdoors at one P.M. to do a project and was joined by my supervisor. The bogsy wood was especially damp and felt autumnal. (In my inner world, autumn begins on September 1, not September 21, and ..read more