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What an ordeal

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:24 pm

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Hello All!
Well, the gardening is moving right along. I have been super busy working at the Trailer and at the new (old) house. I got more plants in this weekend. I bought some beautiful Stargazer Lilies for $.50 each and got 6 pots with 2 in them. What a steal!!!
They are in the ground. I finished putting the brick in and the daylilies out front. I also put up the privicy (sp) out back and it's really taking shape. Pictures will follow soon. I"ll be glad when this is all finished and I can get back on here regular like.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!!!
Marsha

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Well, I'm Back (again). Hehehe

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:03 am

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Hey EVeryone!!!!
I hope you are all wonderful! I'm getting all moved in and settled. This coming week I took off work so I could go out to the trailer to finish painting and clean the carpet. After that, I'm DONE!!!! At least there. LOL
Anyway, Here are a couple of pictures I've promised. I have to change all the pictures from bmp to jpeg. What a job because I've taken a ton of them. But I wanted to get some on here. These are before pictures and once I get them on I'll post the after.
Miss ya. I'll be back on this week. I'll make the time. I sure do miss being on here regular like I was.
See ya soon!


Okay that didn't work. I'll try this......
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/564007894gLiszP?vhost=home-and-garden
You can see this good if you view it as a slide show. I'll get more on this week.


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STill working

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:07 pm

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I'm still working on the house. I finally got the usb cord for the camera and then left the camera at my sister's house 2 hours away. YIKES!!!! Scatter brain for sure.
I will get it this weekend and let everyone see what I've been doing that has kept me away for so long.
Love you guys!


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Tilling and Planting Finally

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:35 pm

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Oh My Gosh! I finally get to till the kids garden here at the Treatment Center. I'm so excited. I'll have to do it by myself since the kids are so busy with groups and classes. I'm going to do it after work on Thursday night, and we'll Lord willing and the creek don't rise, plant on Saturday.
I'm just beside myself over this. The plants that we seeded indoors are going to be so happy to go into the ground. I hope I have hardened off enough. I'll get the other seeds we need this week and we'll have a ball! At least I will. Hehehehe!!!
I really hope these kids get into this. I'll be really hurt if they don't. There are a few very few that really do like it so I will concentrate on those few!

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Digging

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 1:54 pm

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I am cleaning out my current Hosta Garden and getting ready to transplant to the new house. I don't actually get the "word" to move until tomorrow but that's okay. I've already pulled up all the brick that I've used for edging and taken it out to the house and raked up the old mulch. I haven't dug up any plants yet just in case they tell me "NO" I can't move in. I don't think that's going to happen but.....well, you know.
I'm leaving behind some Hosta and ferns along with plenty of Iris and Daylilies. I'll take some but I probably should leave something behind. I don't actually own the land just the trailer and I'm not suppose to take anything. But I figure, I bought these plants or they were given to me and I'm the one who worked hard to get the gardens lovely so I'm taking most of them with me. I'm only dismantleing one garden I'll leave the other 4. I'm reseeding the one and giving it back to the lawnmower. The others I will leave alone. I have roses and many other things in there. There's just so much shade and well, there's not a lot at the House. I think I'll take my roses tho and my Mock Orange.
It's getting closer and I'm getting more nervous. Yikes, I hope this happens for me. It would be so lovely!

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What a Job!

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:46 pm

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I spent my weekend cleaning out at the house. It's such a mess. There were chairs galore in there from the church. I hauled all of them out to the dumpster and by Sunday morning they were all gone. It really surprised me as they were covered in mouse turds. YUCK! You just never know! I've gotten the kitchen almost cleaned up. At least it's started. It was used for a church pantry for those less fortunate. It was not active and the mice moved in. They have really made a mess. I hauled all of the food that wasn't in cans out and left only a few cans that weren't too outdated. I don't know how old it can be before it's not good anymore. All of the cans are dated of 2007. I guess I'll leave some but the nasty turdy ones will go out like the others did. I just can't see anyone wanting them. I have 4 huge shelving units to tear down, clean and move upstairs. I have done one. It's a job that's for sure! But as I want to live there it must be done! My excitment builds the more I clean! I'm just not quite sure just how far I can go. I want to pull up the carpet but my brother didn't actually say anything when I mentioned it. I guess I'll have to ask again. Sometimes when he doesn't know what the answer is he just doesn't say anything at all. I've gotten to know him pretty well. LOL
well, the cleanup saga goes on!
OH! I almost forgot! I planted a bareroot Redbud in the front yard. Hopefully it will grow and be beautiful!!! My first planting there!

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It's a lovely day in Paradise!

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:01 pm

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HELLO Gardenstewers!!!!!
What a beautiful day! I slept until 6:30 am this morning. I'm usually up at 5 to get to work by 7 so this was a real treat for me.
I'm getting more excited the warmer it gets! Excited about moving! I still don't exactly know when that will be but I think a little at a time until I'm completely out of the tin box I live in now. YIPPPEEEE!!!!!!!! A YARD! YIPPPPEEEEE!!!!!
I can hardly contain myself!
The farm house I'm moving to is the one I lived in with my parents for a few years as a teenager. There has been no one in the house for about 2 years now and it's over run by mice and used for storage for the church. It smells so bad you get hit when you walk in the door. This means the carpet will have to be torn out and the beautiful hardwood floors will have to be bleached and then refinished. I remember the floors throughout the house were beautiful at one time. I don't know why anyone would cover them.
This house is actually the parsonage to the church my dad was the minister at many years ago. My brother is now the pastor and after 2 years ago of me asking if I could move in to the house he has finally decided it would be better to have someone living in it. Duh! LOL
I will live there for 2 years and then build my own small house. I'm very anxious to do this. The time spent in the parsonage will give me a chance to save my money to put towards a home of my own. This is a new adventure for me and that's a good thing!
The existing flowers there are, Iris. Period. That's it. Oh, maybe a little sedum but there's just not much. No one ever took care of this house and the yard but to mow it. So this will definately be a blank slate for me. I will work hard and make it beautiful for when they (the church) get ready to sell it and move to their new property in 2 years.
I could just jump up for joy!!!!!

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Yippppeeeee Friday!

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:58 pm

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Good Friday to all! What a lovely day it is. Rain and all!
I haven't felt this good in quite a while and just want to share my mood. Silly I know but I gotta get them while I can. LOL
I am planning on repotting some of my seedlings this weekend along with so many other things going on!
Just a little about what I am attempting to do here. I would like to share it so I can get some feedback hopefully. Maybe I should just start a thread. Hmm.....what to do??????
Well, I'll start here and see what happens.

Okay.....I work at a local Treatment Center for Adolscents with Drug, Alcohol and Behavior problems. I have done my homework and have presented a program for the Residential Units to begin doing some flower gardening. It has been approved.
There would be three gardens 5'x8' and one of them would be mostly vegetables. That unit is long term kids that would actually get to see the fruit of their work.
I'm getting ready to till the ground so we can start planting the second week in May. I think this would be good. The flowers would mostly be annuals since they pop up pretty early and the kids could actually put them in the barrels we have around the building. I have started the seeds and they are coming up very quickly here inside. Most of the kids are pretty excited about this and it sure makes me excited to get started myself!!!
This is going to be fun. I hope anyway. I can only take one unit out at a time, 5 kids per one staff. One of our units is a girls unit and they can only go out when the boys are not there. This may pose a challenging situation but I'm sure we'll work it out. I hope I'm not taking on too much here. We'll see I suppose.
Any feed back would be appreciated!

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You've Surprised me Stewers!

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:32 pm

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Wow! What a surprise I got when I logged in today. People actually read these blogs. 8-}
I'm flabergasted! How neat to see so many welcomes and fair wishes.
Thank you!



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Moving

Category: Current Garden Project | Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:35 pm

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Wow! Just got all my gardens to look beautiful and perfect and now I'm moving (I hope). It all started about 7 years ago when I moved in to the Mobile Home I'm in now. There is a lot of shade and I really didn't know what to do. What a challenge it has been! But I've learned what flowers and plants love the shade, what will tolerate it and what just doesn't want any part of it!!!
I have many Hosta, Huechera, Bluebells,Bleeding Hearts. I'll be digging up most of these when I move for sure.
The place I'm moving to is mostly sunny and that's going to be so much fun. This is going to be so easy! There are so many Sun Loving Flowers to plant I can barely contain myself!!!
I'm so looking forward to being able to grow roses and so many other beautiful flowers!

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