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no gardening today
Category: daily chores | Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:53 pm Entertaining today, plus........it's my Monday. Starting to work here this afternoon. I've got a baked french toast casserole in the fridge, ready to pop in the oven. Sprinkling today, which is great timing for all the things I have put in the ground this week........and for the grass seed I managed to spread too. I've got so many repair areas in the lawns, we had solved a few huge holes & dips by hauling compost in. Now, the seed and today the rain. Within a couple weeks, we should look a little more normal. People kept asking "what are those spots for??". I can't understand why the previous owners would continue to mow, with the craters in the lawn. Some patches of new dirt are big enough to park a car on. Made driving the mower exciting!! A couple more seedlings up in my veggie nursery here inside. I'm misting and turning the trays, so they grow more straight up rather than horizontally. Talking to them all the time too, letting them know their responsibility to feed this bunch!!! Enjoying reading the blogs & forums here. I pick a topic every day and have the best time, here with my coffee. Thanks everyone for sharing your tips, pictures and questions. I continue to get inspired!! This blog entry has been viewed 460 times
chores piling up here
Category: daily chores | Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:57 pm As I worked yesterday, getting all but 3 plants in the ground here..........I was mentally adding chores to the TO DO list as I went along. Good thing I don't get stressed out by too much to do. Everywhere I looked, there was a job to do outside. Todays list will be just a couple things as I need to move back inside & cook something, or the natives will get restless. I've finally found the bag of grass seed, so I'm going to get it out on all the spots where we've been adding soil (some were big enough to lose the mower in) We're supposed to get a sprinkle of rain this evening, so it seems like the perfect day for this. I will get the 3 remaining plants from my moms yard, somewhere. Things aren't in the right spots here, but they will be in the ground, I can transplant as I get more beds ready to go. I will call to set up the tiller/grader friend, so I can get the veggie plot ready to go. I'm getting anxious. And, I'll start some more seeds indoors. I'm pleased with my feeble attempts at this, so will continue as I've been doing. Better finish up the coffee & get to work. I hope others are enjoying a bit of spring. This blog entry has been viewed 393 times
Divide & dig
Category: daily chores | Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:23 pm Finally, a day to get outside with no other commitments! My favorite kind of day......... Have a load of laundry ready to hang on my brand new clothesline too. I have a couple buckets and several boxes full of plants from my moms..........all sitting in the shade, waiting to see where they get to live here at the new place. I've only got a smallish place cleared that will work for her offerings.........as she has mostly shade & I have mostly full sun. But, I should end up with a garden by this afternoon, instead of a patch of dirt! Mostly native things........oregon grape, holly, a couple firs, and then a bucket full of items from her rockery garden. Free plants, my absolute favorite. Mom shared a story about her mom........I told her thank you for the plants as I was leaving & she said her mom said you never say thank you for plants from someone. Grandma said that plants you sneak a slip from will grow better!! Who knew my Grandma was such a sneaky lady?? :) She did have a way with flower gardens! (maybe that's because she "lifted" all her starts?) Off to my day........enjoying a balmy 43 degrees already at 7AM, supposed to get to 61 today!! Good gardening to everyone! This blog entry has been viewed 327 times
no gardening today
Category: daily chores | Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:14 pm Off to a meeting today..........sunny & I'm not going to be in my garden! Hopeful I'll have the van full of plants when I return this afternoon. Weather report is good for the next couple days, so I should be able to get everything all tucked into a new home here before it pours again. My acorn squash sprouts are almost all coming up! Success. Some are 3" tall already. Soon they will be the same size I used to buy at the nurseries. Too fun! I searched around last night for other containers to start some other items....can't even remember what all I've got for this season. Bringing in a table this afternoon, to set up my mini greenhouse event inside. No point in letting the squash get a head start!! It's been so fun to read about others gardens. I am insanely jealous of established gardens, since I'm hacking away here, having to dig out for any sort of bed. I miss my other yard!!! By now I would be gathering armfuls of flowers to bring indoors. The other yard was definately at it's peak in May.... My new yard, has a couple rhodies that haven't bloomed yet. Oh, let's not forget the teensy bunch of lily of the valley that have bloomed this week....one little sprout with flowers!!!! This blog entry has been viewed 254 times
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another dismal day
Category: daily chores | Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:25 pm No chores scheduled today.......the garden is going to begin to float. Weather report declared today as "dismal". Looks like November! I did cultivate the front garden bed this AM as I was waiting with my kiddo for the school bus. Glad no one can see in my yard. There I am in my robe with my forked hoe.......gardening away. There was no rain right at that moment and I could work from the sidewalks. I'm just itching to get out and put in a couple days work.......heck a couple hours would be nice. But, I'm not that crazy of a gardener to work in the rain. Want spring to really arrive, not just visit for a day here & there. This blog entry has been viewed 344 times
.........the sky opened up
Category: daily chores | Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:02 pm Couldn't go outside & work today unless I had hip waders on. Way too wet. Dark, cloudy.......doesn't even look like spring. The daffodils are all beginning to lay down, due to the weight of the water on them. The rain's good for my trees I planted, they are definately getting watered in! Have a small strawberry patch in, free plants to me. Just the kind I like. Also got free rhubarb starts.....that patch is really looking pathetic. Will be a couple years before I can harvest much from these little starts. All in all.............a really sad looking yard & garden here. This blog entry has been viewed 261 times
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