LallyLuckFarm

Today marks the beginning of the second full week of Spring in the northern hemisphere, even if some of us are stuck in second winter. Share your garden goals, projects, challenges, and successes for this growing season; share your tips, tricks, and garden hacks, or anything else you’d like. Let’s all help each other grow...

Are you starting on your gardening journey this year? Maybe branching out to some new-to-you plants? Trying out a new style of gardening?...

There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will...

Back when I was training folks on how to work with their dogs I had a mantra that “training should be fun for everyone”. While part of that was advice on how to engage their dogs with training games, the other piece of that was that the humans should be having fun with the training as well. Part of that was having cue words...

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We’re halfway through potting up all the plants we’ve overwintered, but are looking at temps below freezing for the next two nights. Today will be about getting covers ready for everything and setting up ambient warmth for several of our plants that are currently flowering. On my way home from a doctor’s appointment, I...

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Who else is hyped for the event, and what runs are you looking forward to?...

I’m sorry for missing last week, I was so in the thick of storm cleanup I genuinely forgot how days work. As an apology, here’s a picture of one of our cherries ready to pop for spring: https://i.imgur.com/0utPGZB.jpeg...

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I appreciate a creative use of scrap lumber as much as the next person, but jeez. I’m getting tired of floating sistered joists and framing.

Hand done wood burning on mahogany. It’s an image from the game manual of Tunic (if you haven’t played, the manual is unlocked by finding its pages during gameplay). After cleaning up the enlarged image a little bit I transferred the image by hand with carbon paper before sitting down to do the burning in of the image.

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What’s everybody doing to celebrate?

This was my first time burning on wood I hadn’t sanded to at least a 1k grit, because I wanted to have a bit of the kerf showing on the finished pieces. Wood is reclaimed HT oak pallet board (don’t ever burn on chemically treated woods).

[Image description: the very first growth from a Lindera benzoin seed has just emerged]...

We’ve seen a number of small insects visiting this member of Anthemideae and I managed to get a picture of just a fraction of the diversity. It’s an important reminder of the value of plants that flower late into the season....

[Image description: nearly a dozen small birds forage among the stalks of Monarda didyma]...

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[Image description: a snow covered trail peeks through between the snowy branches of pine trees]...

[Image description: an Australian shepherd rests his paw on my shoulder while our cat looks on with envy]...