The Deck
The deck was one of the first things we added to the house because without it the only access to the backyard was through the garage or the basement. We love it. We just didn’t enjoy doing it twice three times. (Thrice?)
July 2026
July was a pretty typical summer month in the garden. Things are blooming, things are growing — including weeds, like, well, weeds — and it’s been occasionally too damn hot (or smoky) to do anything outdoors.
June 2026
With the perennial garden replanted and annuals done for the year, June meant — as it usually does — catching up on weeding and pruning that didn’t get done while we were working on that.
The Perennial Garden
The redesigned perennial garden has been a work in progress for a few years now. This spring we were finally ready to replant!
May 2026
May is always the busiest month, with annuals to pot and plant, plus regular spring maintenance. This year we added two major projects: resurfacing the deck and renovating the perennial garden.
April 2026
It’s been a very wet and chilly spring so far, so we’ve had to be selective with maintenance. Parts of the yard are too soggy to mow, and in some cases even to walk in. It’s finally starting to dry out enough to transplant.
Planning for Annual Maintenance
Every year I feel like May is a mad rush of too many things to do in too little time. Every year I feel like I could be making better use of my gardening time outside of May. But I never do. So this year I’m trying something different.