rescued shrubs

Category: free plants | Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:48 pm

I really need to learn to write my entries in Word and cut & paste here. I've attempted to write an entry 2 days in a row now and lost it somewhere into thin air. Knowing my way around here is not one of my gifts!!

Anyway..........I finally got tired of looking at two full sized shrubs that had been dumped in our Free Fill Wanted area out front ... We dug holes yesterday, trimmed the bushes back about half way and watered them in. With luck and regular watering, they just might make it. They never did look dead....as there was just enough stuff dumped near the roots to make them think they were hilled in I think. They are the biggest plants we've got now!

I actually had to water yesterday and today. We are headed into a week with no rain (unheard of for these parts) I put in more flower seeds yesterday and chanced a couple containers of leaf lettuce. I'm dying for a salad here!)

I've set my flat of squash starts out on the back deck both yesterday and today. They have their first real leaves now......and are starting to look like plants. I've always bought my veggie starts, so this little experiment is pretty amazing to me. For those of you with green houses.........I know this is really no big thing. I never even had a window in the old house that got sun......so I'm in new territory here.

I am taking my time getting the seeds started for the veggie garden, as I don't want them all to need something done with them on the same day....or even the same week. I rarely have blocks of time to devote to anything but the kiddo here.......so I'm hoping my little plants cut me some slack and mature in a staggered fashion. We'll see...........

I got all my hoses out of the shed & have one at each faucet, only to find that each & every one of the faucets here need work. Leaks everywhere!!! Fortunately, it isn't a water bill issue, since we're on our own well......but it is a messy issue. I get water where I don't really want it this way. So, I need to become an apprentice plumber now. Never done this project before.........but, this will bug me enough to get me to try it.

Enjoying sunshine & 62 degrees today here in WA.

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dooley wrote on Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:05 pm:

Almost a week with no rain? We went from October 13 to sometime in March with no rain, then we got 10 inches of snow one weekend and 6 inches of snow the next weekend. A few sprinkles of rain since but nothing measurable. Send us some of your rain, Please! dooley