Port Potager

Now that the cutting garden is up and running, we have lots of flowers throughout the house. I cut them when something outside looks nice (or when a vase inside is looking ratty enough to need replacing), but I'll collect a week's worth of bouquet photos to share on Fridays. Here's what I had this week: Mixed tulips. Lilac. Mini bouquet of Fortissimo daffodil, red and orange ranunculus, white tulip, and white Jacob's ladder. The opposite side of the above bouquet, where you can also see the golden yellow coreopsis. Salmon tulips (with a carved mask and limestone/coral from Mexico ).

This morning we spent some time downtown for the Labor Day festival in Newburyport. We watched Jonas' karate demo team and ate some fried food for lunch. After a nice bike ride back home, there were some last tasks to complete before calling it a summer. I have to go back to work tomorrow, you see, and we'll be officially in fall mode with the garden because of that. Overseeding Last weekend we finally finished pulling out all the giant crabgrass from the back lawn. That gave us just a week to relax and enjoy some croquet on it before having to overseed it for the fall. As you can see, this half has a lot of bare dirt left after removing the crabgrass. These patches got extra love with some raking, extra seeding, and sprinkling of more compost to cover the seed. The rest of the lawn just got a regular old overseeding. This is a great example of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. This section is where we started pulling the crabgrass, so we got it ...