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Getting things ready

Category: March | Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:27 pm

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I finally got to feeling better about mid morning an thought I'd get out an try to get some things done. You know how you feel like if you could throw up you'd feel better but can't. When I laid down last night it hit me all at once. But I feel better now, just hungry.

Yesterday coming back from getting DD from school there was a farmer selling produce from the back of his truck an I bought some rutabagas, tomatoes, an red new potatoes. Got home an got the rutabagas cleaned an cut up with the greens that will be cooked for tonights supper. DH is picking up some chicken an of course I'll fix cornbread.

Back to the garden, I raked up all the leaves from the pathways of the garden an added some to the compost pile, got the pile turned an burned 2 large piles of leaves. Never woulda thought there would be that many leaves. Still not done raking, but it does look better. Got the soil turned in 3 beds an part of another.

This morning I had gotten all my seedling trays outside so they could harden off an counted 145 tomatoe plants. Still have some to bump up, will need to give some away. No room for all those. I struggled last year to find room for the 114 plants. I still have a lot to do out there b4 planting can be done, but I'll get there slowly but surely. I know tomorrow is out, will be egg hunting with the grandkids. Happy Easter everyone.

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Seedlings an Ma Nature

Category: March | Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:51 pm

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Its been very nice weather lately but today is windy an cold. DH had to work an called to say it was snowing an with the wind it wasn't sticking. I had planned to work in the yards but Ma Nature changed that, so it looks like I'll be cleaning the house, laundry an if my energy holds out I may wash the walls which I try to do every year or two.

My seedlings are doing well, more popping thru almost daily. I have bumped up the arugula, some tomatoes, flat dutch cabbage, marigolds, love in a puff. I direct sowed 2 packs of Nasturiums an red Sweet Peas the evening before we got so much rain. My seedlings had perked back up by the next day.

I also bought another 5 lbs of seed potatoes. I try every year now for the last 3 years with poor results. Not sure what I'm not doing right, but come harvest time the potatoes will be smaller than the seed I planted. I'm changing up where I've been planting them to see if that will make any difference.

While at DD's school yesterday I got some cuttings of a White Camillia an a Red Camillia, don't know the names but I don't care they were pretty. Got them home an stuck them, hopefully they will root for me.

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