Pine Garden Notes https://pinegardennotes.garden/ Notes from a small shady garden under old pines: acid soil, mulch, blueberries and slow experiments. en September notes: garlic in, seeds saved https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/september-notes.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/september-notes.html Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT Planting garlic along the sunny fence, drying bean and marigold seed, and the list for next year. Tomatoes in the only sunny corner https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/tomatoes-sunny-corner.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/tomatoes-sunny-corner.html Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Six plants, one patch of afternoon sun, and a harvest that was better than it had any right to be. Rainwater: two butts and a gutter diverter https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/rainwater-butts.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/rainwater-butts.html Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Blueberries want soft water and August wants to be dry. A small, cheap setup that nearly keeps up. Blueberries in a raised bed, second summer https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/blueberries-raised-bed.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/blueberries-raised-bed.html Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT The one crop that actually likes what the pines do to the soil. Pine needle mulch: six months in https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/pine-needle-mulch.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/pine-needle-mulch.html Wed, 20 May 2026 08:00:00 GMT Does it really make the soil more acidic? My pH readings, before and after. What finally grew under my pines https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/what-grows-under-pines.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/what-grows-under-pines.html Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:00:00 GMT Three seasons of failures, and the short list of plants that survived dry shade. The moss I stopped fighting https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/moss-under-pines.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/moss-under-pines.html Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:00:00 GMT Four years of reseeding grass in the shade. Then I let the moss win, and the garden got better. A compost heap that can handle needles https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/compost-with-needles.html https://pinegardennotes.garden/posts/compost-with-needles.html Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:00:00 GMT Needles take forever to rot on their own. A winter plan for a heap that can actually digest them.