September 11, 2005

PDX Gardening in September

So, I’ve whittled down the overwhelming amount of gardening info to the tasks that affect what I most care about: growing food. I shall endeavor to accomplish the following this September: Plant maché (corn salad) and fava beans from seed. Plant winter cover of annual rye or winter peas. Cover bare areas of garden with compost.

Some PDX/Oregon specific gardening links:

Gardening in Autumn

Historically, fall gardening opportunities pass me by. When the glamour of summer produce begins to wane — squash plants begin to mildew and wither, tomatoes stop ripening, basil turns black — I usually lose interest in the face of autumnal ennui. The garden remains neglected and unattractive until spring. This year will be different! I’m looking into fall friendly plants and plants that will over-winter. Maché, arugula, fava beans… I actually don’t know that much about what works this time of year, but this is a good starting point. To remind myself of what else can be done through the fall and winter, I thought about setting up a Portland – specific gardening calendar.

This is where I segue from Horticulture to Geekery.

To this end, I just ran across a plugin for WordPress that enables multi-author calendar event posting, as well as calendar subscriptions. I could share the calendar with friends and family and hopefully reap the benefit of a pool of gardening knowledge. This is the idealistic dream anyway. We’ll see how it plays out. :)

September 4, 2005

Bongo

Bongo Basks

Little over a week ago, Bongo first showed signs of lethargy. She spent the whole day in bed and Caton and I were extremely concerned. In the following days, however, she seemed to rally and show steady signs of improvement. Since she seemed to be recovering, and since she was an extremely skittish kitty, we felt that the stress of a vet visit would outweigh its benefits. We assumed she had a kitty cold. Read the rest of this entry »

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