Months ago, a friend — who tends to see the glass as half-empty — asked what would happen to this blog when Chicago’s gardening season ended.
It was a question I hadn’t even stopped to ask myself. As it was, I was struggling with finding photos to illustrate posts for my fledgling blog, since nothing was yet in bloom — and, stretching the random photos I’d saved from previous seasons on my cell phone camera was beginning to be, well, a stretch.
Over the course of developing CityDiggity and cultivating my small-space urban oasis I learned many new things about blogging and gardening (oh, the power of social networking!). And, along the way I also got a decent camera (smile).
That camera still holds an abundance of photos that I never got to share, and they provoked many thoughts that I never got to express. Essentially, things I’ve saved for a snowy day — which might not be that far off considering we’ve had our first frost.
So, to answer my friend’s question, I will continue blogging through Chicago’s cold, cruel winter — sharing recollections of things unsaid, adventures in indoor gardening, recipes using veggies to try in future gardens, the beauty of area garden exhibits, thoughts on sustainability, lessons learned from the past season, and finally, advanced planning for next year’s garden.
[Hope you enjoy the photos above, which are a brief flashback on the season’s balcony container garden. And don’t forget to subscribe to my feed so that you know when new posts are available. Cheers!]
Hello Avis! how are you doing? I have lots of pictures stored in my hard disk. Whenever I look back at those photos, there are bound to be things that I have missed out. So some of those photos can be used later. I hope to see more postings from you yeah… Btw, most of the leaves of my sweet potato vine got scorched by the sun last weekend. I have cut those dried leaves and stems away. I hope the plant could regrow soon. I find that my method of training the vine to climb on the tomato cage did not work well as the sun/hot weather can easily scorch up the leaves. It has be a creeper. The cage is taken out and the plant left its roots/tuber only ;-(
Stephanie,
Hope your sweet potato bounces back! I’m looking forward to photos from you of one that is actually flowering since you live in a tropical climate.