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And plant seeds is what I did

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:31 pm

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In pots in my shed are
Delphinium, Dill, Oxeye Daisy May Queen, brilliant orange Butterfly Flower, St. John's Wort, pie pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins I bought last year and some heirloom watermelon seeds Randy's dad gave us. I have no idea if those last two will sprout.

I combined a packet of Old Fashioned cut flowers and wildflowers, they are in the large wooden planter we got from Lisa.

Two ornamental grasses, Blue Fescue and Fountain Grass, are in large pots where they will have to stay until the eave work is done out front.

Blue Woodruff is in a large brass pot, it does fine in shade, that was where the pot was and it is too heavy for me to move.

Zinnia 'Red Spider' in a large plastic halloween cauldron.

Cornflower 'Black Gem' is planted in the ground. Since I don't know what the seedlings look like and strange things are always coming up in our yard thanks to the birds, I cut some small water bottles into 4" tall rings that I pushed into the ground and planted the seeds in. I put them in sets of three at four different locations.

I have to nick and soak the Morning Glory, Bushel Gourd and the European Licorice seeds and plant them in the ground tomorrow.

I still have more seeds to pot up but ran out of potting mix.

And then I went for a walk thru Calloway's Nursery .......and I bought plants, no surprise is it?
Chocolate Mint and regular Mint for the retired recycle bins.
A lavender to replace one that died in the last freeze.
Two Red Geraniums for the pot out front.
A Red Ice plant, 'Pink Chablis' Deadnettle and a Bacopa 'Glacier Blue' all for pots on the front porch.



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Tomorrow I plant seeds

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:08 am

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I found the type of shelves I wanted for the potting shed and got them put together today. White metal with wire mesh shelves.
I have been saving all sorts of containers to use as pots, the bottom half of half gallon size Silk (soy milk) cartons, bottom half of water bottles, yogurt cartons, etc. Plus I have some small pots from plant buying over the years.
Also have some large pots for the plants that will have to stay in a pot longer than the others...like the grass plants that will go out front after some work and painting is done on the eaves.

I also will be calling Seeds of Change tomorrow with a question about the order I have not received. I emailed them yesterday and got a response back that I had underpaid on the order and still owed $5.05. They said a letter was mailed to me last Monday about it, now why did they wait a week and a half AFTER cashing my check to let me know I owed more?
I only ordered 5 packets and then added postage from their chart. Before I send anymore money I want an exact accounting of why?

I also found a small packet of two year old red Poppy seeds in a drawer and planted them in an pot out back not knowing if they were still viable and they are coming up. Never have grown Poppies before but the red color should be pretty.

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Where it all takes place, aka my craft room

Category: My Crafty Side | Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:18 am

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I forgot I took these pictures a couple of months ago.

The view from my room to the bookcase in the front part of the room.


I bought two large shelf sets made from old barn wood from an herb market that closed down a couple of years ago, this one holds my craft books and supplies for soap making, beading, some painting things, etc.


Bookcase filled with yarn and my spinning wheel which did NOT produce any of that yarn....still haven't taken the time to figure it out.


Half of the back wall, another old barn wood shelf I bought from the herb market. It holds the books I haven't read yet, my witch collection and my collection of dragons.


Rest of the back wall with small jewelers cabinet a friend gave me that holds all sorts of craft supplies that I painted is in front of what used to be an outside door.


My always cluttered craft table and a bookcase filled with fabric from my quilting days.




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March is here and I am gardening again

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:11 pm

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It felt soooooo good to be out back again and not once did I wonder what was going to happen to me this time.
I did hear the wind blow that large paper bag I put weeds and grass in for recycle collection over and noticed a little shutter went thru me, guess I will be 'gun shy' for a few days.

I cleared out some of the stuff that had been left sitting around my new potting shed. I put some special goodies in the shed. Will have to buy some shelves this evening I think.
Randy got most of the fence pieces out to the curb last night for pickup today, there are some left that will stay where they are until he moves them next Tuesday evening.

I did get the grass/weeds pulled up around the new shed to create a new bed. Not really a flower bed as such, it will be covered with mulch for now with only the Iris planted in it. I may come up with something else later. I have a small metal table and two chairs that used to be out front but will be just outside the opening of the shed where we can sit and enjoy evenings looking at the garden.





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Two more days until March

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:05 pm

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Yesterday was almost 80 for a high temp, today should be almost 80 and Wednesday should be in the mid to upper 70's ...way too hot for me to be out back in the afternoon. Even iffy during the late mornings since the tree limbs are still bare and the sun just shines right thru them leaving no shade.

I have been putting off buying the shelves I need for the new potting shed too. I know that once they are out there I will have an even harder time staying away from the yard until March.

And when my last two seed orders arrive, the call of the shed will be strong.
But thru all these temptations I only have to reach up and accidently scratch my healing injury to be reminded that it is still February and February hates me. And it appears February is not very fond of Randy either, he stepped on a nail Sunday afternoon while finishing up out there. Just a small puncture and thankfully he is current on his Tetanus vacination.

But March will be coming in like a lamb on Thursday with temps only in the 60's for about the first week of the month.

Trash day is tomorrow so this afternoon we must move all those fence boards to the front curb, we haven't been able to find suits of armour for that chore so wish us luck.

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Shed extreme makeover

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:23 am

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This is what the potting area looked like for the last couple of years. It started out as a nice area but the wheather really took it's toll on everything sitting outside. Plus when I tried to start seedlings last spring I had to contend with squirrels digging in the pots, birds dropping unwanted seeds, the rain we did get flooded everything. It really looked bad as you can see.



This is the last of the old fence panels, Randy took them apart. We were going to salvage the pickets but most of them split and fell apart in the process so they will all go to the curb on trash day.



The old metal shed that is so rusted in the first picture has been painted a dark gray color and when I find either a barn red or dark green, the door will be painted too.
The new potting shed is up. It is 7feet x 7 feet x 7feet and is a popup design. It has 8 screened 'windows' that can be opened for ventilation. I need to get some shelves for plants, the red cooler in front of me holds my potting soil so it will go in too, several other things will go in so the furnishing is not complete. But the important items are there, my chair, me and a glass of Chianti.




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Head update

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:21 pm

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It is still at the top of my neck.

The lump is only a little tender now, but does remind me it is there when I roll over onto my back in my sleep. But it is healing nicely.

We will be finishing the potting area re-do this afternoon and then I can get some pictures posted.

Thanks for the well wishes and other than helping Randy this afternoon I don't think I will be doing much of anything in the garden for the rest of this cursed month except getting some seeds potted up.



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I don't like this February

Category: Random bulletins from my brain | Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:28 am

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It hasn't rained enough to measure in my really large rain gauge, it hasn't been cold enough to even notice, no snow on the ground like Feb 14, 2004 but yet nowhere the same number of pleasant working outside in the garden type of days as last year either.

So why do I hate this February? It is trying to kill me....or at least cause me great bodily damage.

Feb 7th I had a wonderful day working in the yard, then fell while taking limbs to the curb and couldn't move for a few days without pain in my back.
Feb 12th I thought I was recovered so got out the vacuum cleaner to do the cleaning I couldn't do for the previous 5 days, did more than I should causing my back to continue hurting, preventing me doing gardening for yet another week and a half.

Feb 23, Randy and I started on the complete and extreme makeover of my potting area. Got everything moved out, I swept the fallen leaves out of the area in preparation for more roofing shingles as flooring for the new potting area.
Randy had gone into the house for something, I got the area swept and knelt down to pull some weeds....I don't know exactly what order things happened, but I think it was like this.

I had a feeling I shouldn't be at that particular spot at that particular moment in time.
I heard a sound to my right.
I think #3 was the realization that the last fence panel was falling but it might have been tied with #4 or a nanosecond after, which would have made it #4.
The next thing I knew the 6 ft x 8 ft wood panel fell onto the back of my head, knocking me down and pinning me under it. My second or third 'first thought' was I had better get at least the top half of my body out from under this thing or Randy will really get panicky when he comes back out.
I was laying on my back when he hit the back door on a dead run.
The fence panel scraped a my scalp....do you know how much a head wound bleeds????

'Tis but a flesh wound' and other than a headache off and on today I have been feeling pretty good.

I think it will be at least Sunday before we can get the makeover completed.





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A lot going on out in the garden

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:29 pm

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And I am not talking about plants growing or blooming.

Tuesday it was the sparrows. Yesterday it was the squirrels. Today it was the doves. Tomorrow will probably be the grackles.

My first thought was 'come on you all, get a room' then I realized who I would be talking to...animals doing what comes naturally...so I just averted my eyes so as not to embarrass them.

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To the gate and in full bloom

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:57 pm

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I spent three hours working on the future birthmonth flower garden/Lantana bed. I had started it two weeks ago today, then took that fall and today was the first time I could really do anything out there. I may pay for it tomorrow but what the heck, I had fun today.

I still need to finish pulling out the grass/weeds you see at the bottom and right of the picture and there is a bit more just outside the picture to do also.
From the clump of dead Redbud stumps to the gate will be covered with black plastic and mulch then I can cut slits for planting the three Lantana I need to move. I have one bush type and two spreading type that just aren't working in the main garden but will be great over there.


I knew Rosemary was an evergreen but I didn't realize it would stay covered in blue blossoms year round too. The bees are having a feast on it too.






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