I have a LOT of lenten rose planted in the perennial bed on the north side of our house. I love it because it stays green all year. It does well in dry shade–not many things do. It does well in part sun/part shade too. And the flowers (once seed pods have formed) are justContinue reading “An Argument for Lenten Rose”
Category Archives: Gardening
The Carrot Harvest
The deer around here have discovered my gardens, and have been nibbling on things. They especially like carrot tops, and have been pulling some of the carrots up with the tops, sooooo, I decided that I needed to harvest the carrots. This year, I grew the greens on the south side of the house, soContinue reading “The Carrot Harvest”
From the Garden–KALE
I got an earlier start on my fall garden this year compared to other years and it is doing well. So well in fact, that I went ahead and picked my first batch of kale. I planted Lacinato kale because I prefer it over the curly variety–it’s much easier to wash because it’s flat. Here’sContinue reading “From the Garden–KALE”
Sweet Potato Harvest
I need to get the beds where I grow my sweet potatoes put to “bed” for the winter by adding more compost and covering them thickly with mulch to keep the weeds at bay, so it was time to dig sweet potatoes. The deer really love sweet potato leaves and they hit these beds reallyContinue reading “Sweet Potato Harvest”
Fall Gardening is Going WELL
So I made a fall garden post a few weeks ago. I went out to water this morning and decided to post an update because it’s growing so well. The carrots are growing like crazy. They are still at least a month a way from being ready to harvest. I need to harvest them beforeContinue reading “Fall Gardening is Going WELL”
Mushroom Update
My husband wanted to grow more mushrooms this year. We innoculated a bunch of shitake logs back in 2023, and we did some more earlier this year. Here’s the post that I did on that this spring: https://cathyathomeontheriver.com/2025/03/24/making-mushrooms/ We recently got a bunch of rain and my husband noticed that our shitake logs were startingContinue reading “Mushroom Update”
Fall Gardening
It is the time of the year when I have to clear out the summer vegetables, and get to work on my fall and winter garden. I’ve actually been working on it for a while, but I have been remiss in posting about it. A couple weeks ago, my brother and his family were inContinue reading “Fall Gardening”
Summer Gardening
As I mentioned in my last gardening post, our garden has been super productive this year. I’m sure that I have harvested well over 100 lbs of produce–tons of kale; 60+ heads of romaine lettuce; bunches of arugula; about 10 lbs of potatoes; 20+ lbs of cucumber; and the tomatoes are going to outpace everything.Continue reading “Summer Gardening”
Potting Shed is Complete
My organization stuff finally came in, and I chose the Gladiator system. It is fully customizable and it is really easy to put up. We used the laser level to get it all level and we screwed it through the face of the gear track and we countersunk the screw heads. The best option IContinue reading “Potting Shed is Complete”
Push to Finish Potting Shed
Well, I thought that we were going to leave things as they were in the potting shed when I gave you an update on the garden, but I was WRONG. My husband wanted to get it finished and off of his list of things to do, and he didn’t want to move the manufactured stoneContinue reading “Push to Finish Potting Shed”
Cathy At Home on the River 