Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Thursday, June 26, 2003
Weather: sunny & hot predicted for today - think I will try to get outside this morning and get some things done before it gets too hot. There was an article in this morning's NY Times Home & Garden section by Ken Druse, which was basically a long complaint abou the weather. At the end it sounded like he paraphrased from my favorite gardening book - The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek - by saying "The gardener's ideal, you see, is to have one inch of gentle rain a week - half on Tuesday, half on Thursday - between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m." Capek wrote that gardeners would pray, "O Lord, grant that in some way it may rain every day, say from about midnight until three o'clock in the morning, but, you see, it must be gentle and warm so that it can soak in ..." Great minds think alike?
Decor: also from the NY Times this morning, I am now thinking of doing up the outside of the house something like this so the neighbors will have something to look at.
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