Fall Updates + More Randomness

Hi my name is Katie and it's been 10 days since I've posted on my blog. (haha)

Not a whole lot is happening around here, in fact, seeing as it is fall and the weather is finally cooling down one would think that flowers would abound. Not so. The only things blooming are one of my 5 'Stella de Oro' daylilies, 3 sages, and a foxglove. Yeah, it was 80^o today, and tonight will be a low of 57^o, but cooling down none the less.

The carrots, spinach, lettuce, peas, and radishes I planted are doing great and loving the cool weather. they were pummelled on Friday night when we had a short burst of heavy rain, but overall seemed to have faired well.

Chris turns to me the other day and said, "You know, I really don't want that composite lumber near plants I'm going to eat." I was crushed. He went on to say he didn't think they were environmentally safe and that the plastic-y ness would leach into the soil. This is all I need to prove him wrong and get what I want.

It was cloudy here a few days ago and we walked Jake the dog, so I was able to get some really nice Fall shots.


























We went to Capital Nursery on Saturday to look for a mandarin tree. We were notified from PVFGS that the 'Dancy' mandarin tree had a crop failure (as did my original thought of the 'Pixie' mandarin), so we had to get a pollinator. We purchased the 'Seedless Kishu' variety, which is supposed to have small bite-sized fruit and not grow much larger than 6-8'. Guess that means we'll just have to get ANOTHER mandarin tree for more fruit!

It's really a gorgeous tree and very vigorous.










I also fulfilled my lifelong goal of owning a clump of black mondo grass. It's so beautiful and Halloween-like! I planted it with creeping Jenny so the colors of the plants set each other off.

Totally worth $15! I wanted 2, but I couldn't justify $30 on teeny tiny plants. Plus mondo grass spreads rather quickly.

I hope the trick-or-treaters like it!