Tag: SixonSaturday
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Six on Saturday | 25th April 2026
Snow that didn’t arrive, kalanchoes from three different Christmases, an accidental amaryllis discovery, and dahlias plotting their summer takeover.
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Six on Saturday | 18th April 2026
Hügelkultur experiments, crocus dreams, heritage seeds from Nordgen, and a school greenhouse with a story I’ll tell you someday.
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Six on Saturday | 11th April 2026
Week six. Ten beds down, the alliums are in the ground, someone has been eating my pea seedlings, and the bird feeder is doing brisk business. Plus a baguette mystery.
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Six on Saturday | 4th April 2026
Week five, beds waking up, and the neighbors are still giving me looks. Asparagus and garlic beds cleaned up and interplanted, carrots in the ground chasing 2023’s legendary surplus, and a mystery volunteer that may or may not be borage.
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Six on Saturday | 28th March 2026
Week four, and the rain did its work. Rhubarb shoots, an overgrown yew getting identified, snowdrops under the plum trees, and a birthday party revelation about raw rhubarb.
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Six on Saturday | 21st March 2026
This week we’re going indoors. One pothos cutting from 2010 became a dynasty spanning every room in the house. There’s also a revenge Brugmansia, a succulent that taught my son that broken doesn’t mean dead, a Christmas cactus I snapped in half, and two freshly planted beds of broad beans.
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Six on Saturday | 14th March 2026
The first seeds went into the ground this week — 274 grams of homegrown peas, pressed into the soil by hand. The comeback year is officially underway. Also: survivor thymes, immortal bergenias, a zombie apple tree, and two beds of defrosted freezer archaeology serving as a wildlife buffet.
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Six on Saturday | 7th March 2026
I took a year off from the garden. Not on purpose — 2025 was just that kind of year. But it’s early March, the snow is pulling back, and I went outside with a cold and a pair of boots to see what survived. Turns out the garden carried on without me, slightly offended.
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Six on Saturday | 22nd June 2024
Happy Midsummer weekend! With last week’s rains, several days of clear sunny skies and only a couple hours of twilight to call night, our garden has been growing at a breakneck pace. We are absolutely inundated with leafy greens at the moment and I have already started showing up to friends’ houses bearing whole lettuces.…
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Six on Saturday | 15th June 2024
I am determined to actually do this on the proper day this week, yes I am! The clear weather today after a week of thunderstorms (some of our friends had localized hail!) made it a very pleasant day for photography. Sadly, I will have to wait until next week to share whatever I pick up…