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Blooming Peonies.....
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:28 pm We have had some uneasy weather this week but all the rain we have gotten and some periods of sun have opened some of the peonies. Here are a few pics: 
The weather is expected to be crazy the next 8 days or so. Lots of Thunderstorms and rain left over from the rains int he mid west. Everything is growing a lot right now. Hopefully when the rains cease tons more growth will start. I really enjoy blogging on this site. The people are so friendly and the comments left are very encouraging. I hope everyone is having a great day or night depending on where you are in the world. This blog entry has been viewed 434 times
Everything is finally planted...
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:59 pm This morning my son and I went out to the veggie patch and did a bit of weeding. I took the floating row covers off the cantaloupe and watermelon. They have tripled their size from 3 weeks ago and have flowers on them. I feel that we will get melons this year. After uncovering the melons we weeded and fertilized. I talked to the lady at the veggie shack up the road and she said it was okay to put in my cukes. So I put in the 10 plants that I had started from seed. I also put in some seeds. I adjusted some of the tom plants and made a few more trellises. The toms are looking very good. They have gotten also more vibrant and have grown a few inches in the past week. everything is doing very well in the tire planters. The weather has been very interesting the past few days...nice sunny skies then intense thunderstorms. We got out there this morning before the black flies and mosquitos got too bad. So far today no storms but PM thunderstorms are predicted. I hope everyone is enjoying their gardens and have a nice day/night. I will post more pics in a few days. This blog entry has been viewed 350 times
1st day of Summer Break....
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:17 pm Today was the first day of my summer break from driving bus. My son and I brought my husband to work this morning and came home for a short nap. When we awoke it was very gray and raining. I decided that this was the day to get some scrapbooking done. I am in charge of our family reunion scrapbook so I finished last years. our family reunion is coming up on the July 4th weekend. After lunch I put to good use some very RIPE bananas. I made a nice banana bread. My son loves it. When we got home from picking up my husband we walked the yard. In just a day I have blooms and more growth. This warm and humid weather makes everything grow so fast! Peonie Blooming 
Bud on Papa's Rose Bush 
Large tomato in patio pot 
Almost ripe Strawberry 
Bees Making Raspberries 
Clean up started on the damaged apple tree 
Hope everyone had a great day! This blog entry has been viewed 480 times
1 tomato, 2, tomato, 3 tomato ......46 tomato plants MORE!
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:54 pm I have had a busy weekend. On Saturday morning I was up at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. I was having a good friend over for dinner so I cleaned the whole house and made it presentable. Until yesterday morning the dining room table had my grow lights on it and was my inside greenhouse. So i had to find the table. After the table was discovered, I moved on to the kitchen. By 7am the whole of the downstairs was clean and presentable. At 9 I mowed the lawn, I was only going to mow the front and around the flower beds but I felt so good that I did all around the veggie patch, and behind the house. felt good to get it all done. Then I put in about 12 of the tomato plants. I had a loss on Friday. I was so busy getting ready and heading out for my bus route that I forgot to take off the hot house that was over my black krim, brandywine and other plants that had not been planted. I came home that night and half of them were fried. I watered them heavily and left them. about 10 passed. But some survived. I was done working on Saturday just before 11 and had the rest of the day to relax. Novice101 (my friend) came over for dinner. She arrived around 3 and we walked the garden and house. It was a great visit. I was soooo exhausted that I was in bed at half 8 and slept until 7 this morning. Sunday morning we gave my husband his father's day gifts of english goodies and woodworking books then went out to the garden. The weather was perfect for planting this morning. It was cloudy and misty and cool. I got the remaining tomato plants in...the final count is...46! So now I wait patiently and see how they do. Everything is in the garden now expect for the cucumbers. I am waiting 1 more week to put those plants in. they hate the cold and we had a night of around 35 last week. They issued a frost warning but it stayed warmer. My husband and I transplanted a few things that we dug up out of a flower bed that we moved. He was busy while I was planting the garden. He was removing the fallen branch from the apple tree. On Wednesday he removed the pear tree from where it was fallen and somehow it only ripped a hole in the screen of a window. It fell directly between 2 raspberry patches and didn't do any damage to either. That was some kind of divine intervention. I walked around today with the camera and took a ton of pics of buds, blooms and of the garden. 5 buds on the white rose... 
Gorgeous Honeysuckle 
Budding and Blooming Rose 
Morning Glories 
Peonies 
a Box of Sage 
Lots of Small Blueberries! 
Tire planter looking lovely. 
Here are several pictures that show the progress we have made in the veggie garden. Growing green beans. 
repaired bean trellis 
Growing Potatoes 
growing Zucchini 
Happy Peppers 
The transplanted accidental sunflowers are doing very well! 
Here are several views of the newly planted tomato plants. 
Here is a total view of the garden. 
I hope everyone had a great day and to those dads out there Happy Fathers day! Last edited: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:20 pm This blog entry has been viewed 488 times
Schools out for summer!!!
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:46 pm I don't know if I have told you before but I am a special needs school bus driver. Today was the last day of school for the 2 different districts I drive for. NOW we can have more fun in the yard and garden and the BEACH! I was watering the garden late this afternoon and noticed I have small potato leaves popping out of the dirt! I have never grown potatoes before and am excited to see them grow. Hopefully we will be getting potatoes this fall. Since the storm the other day the weather has been gorgeous. Lots of sun and warmth. Everything in the garden is growing wonderfully. the peas are several inches taller then last week, the pumpkins, zucchini, and sunflowers and really growing fast and some of the tomato plants I put in last weekend have flowers! I am so excited. I love to see everything start to grow. And some of the grass seed we sowed last weekend has started to sprout. Last night I had the camera out and i took a picture of this new iris blooming. It bloomed the night after the big storm. I love the darker shade of yellow that this one is. 
On Saturday it will be time to mow the lawn again and I need to start putting in the rest of the tomato plants. I cukes are going to have to wait another week or so until I am sure it is warm enough at night. Everyone have a great night and weekend! This blog entry has been viewed 359 times
And the wind blew....calm after the storm
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:34 am We knew it was coming. Storm watches and warnings and even TORNADO watches for VERMONT,all day. At about 4pm this afternoon a fast moving, violent storm came through the area. We were not home. I had just parked my bus and was resting at our office when the rain came. When Logan and I got in the car it was raining very hard. The sly was blackish green and the wind was kicking up. Just as we were approaching an intersection Fire trucks with lights and sirens came racing threw. At this point I knew this storm had cuased some damage. I park my bus in Nh in the town of Haverhill. We joke that when the wind blows the power goes out there. As we drove the car was blowing all over the road. Debris was blowing all over the place. When we arrived to get my husband just south of my work. The sky was blue and you would have never known that a huge storm was blowing. I could hear the thunder in the distance. We arrived home about half 5. We stopped on the way home to get the makings for cold sandwiches, because I just knew that the power would be out when we got to Groton. I was right. We knew somthing had happened because a small tree was down near my flower beds...then we noticed my hot house on the front lawn against the fence. That was about 100 yards from where it was left. The pea trellis had been blown over....then we noticed our 50 foot pear tree. SNAPPED about 6 feet from the ground. it just missed our inlaw apartment. Then I noticed a huge limb of our apple tree snapped...and part of a flowering cherry tree....The storm didn't drop a lot of water but it was fast and furious....we wandered around in shock and awe of what had happened. Glad that we were lucky to have not sustained any property damage. We do have some work we will have to do with the clean up. Cutting down the broken limb and cutting everything up for wood in our fire pit. I have to fix the beans teepee trellis. When the hot box got blown around the yard, it passed through the bean trellis and the pea fence. We can see on the black plastic how the hot box got blown around and flipped and landed and put holes in. The wind must have been amazingly strong. I took pictures of the damage and other scenes around the yard after the storm. We were getting ready to spend the night without power. I had just got the flashlight and candles out and were about to light the candles and POOF the power came back on. STORM DAMAGE Apple tree limb broken... 
Pear tree felled 
Small tree down 
Hot house 100 yards from garden if the fence wasn't there it would have done damage to the neighbors house. 
Tin Man down...lost his hat...needs repair work... 
the calm after the storm...Pictures of blooms around the yard... 
This iris has a little visitor... 
I hope everyone had a nice day and have enjoyed their gardens. The severe weather is hopefully past and it should be a lot cooler now that this storm blew threw. We should be enjoying out yard and garden again on Wednesday. Bye for now. Last edited: Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:37 am This blog entry has been viewed 595 times
Today's findings....
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:22 pm we have officially had a heat wave. This is the 3rd day in a row that it hit over 90 degrees. That is very uncommon for this time of year and this area. They say one more day of the heat and then back into the 70's. Hopefully some rain will come tomorrow. Not a drop with all this humidity. After a long day we walked and watered the garden. All this heat has produced zucchini, pumpkin and sunflower seedlings. everything seems to be doing well. I have a couple peppers that were in the hot house that appeared to have gotten too hot. So looks like I will have to purchase a couple more pepper plants to make up for the ones that have died. All in all it is looking good and this weekend the rest of the tomato plants will get planted. The beans and the peas have really sprouted up and the accidental sunflowers that i transplanted on Saturday have recovered from the shock of being moved and look nice. I will take some pictures tomorrow when I am not so tired. There are more iris blooms and morning glories are doing well. Hope everyone has had a nice day. This blog entry has been viewed 412 times
Too hot to move...
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:46 pm We ventured out at 9am this morning...it was already over 80 and the humidity unbearable. But with things we needed to do we had to go out. I had given up half of my veggie patch so that we could grass it and build a play area for my son. This morning we pulled the tiller to the garden area and tilled up the soil on what will soon be grass. We filled buckets and a trash can with dirt and filled all 40 of the tires in the garden. That was hot and tiring work. Every few minutes we had to take a break and head for the shady tree. Finally all the tires are filled and next weekend I will be putting in the tomatoes I started from seed. They are really enjoying being in the hot box in the driveway. Getting baked by the sun they have grown quite a bit already. After the filling of the tires we had a nice break indoors and then ventured back out. I moved some Liatris, a Hosta and the Clementis and we raked down the area. The grass seed has been sowed and the area roped off. Now we wait and see if it grows. The Clementis I moved we thought had died last year. When I bought it, it was gorgeous. But by the end of the summer wilt had claimed it and it appeared to be dead. But it came back and is bigger already then it was last year when I bought it. I moved it to climb the arbor that will be the entrance to play yard. We are in for the day. It is over 90 and very humid and no breeze to speak of today. Everyone have a great day. This blog entry has been viewed 318 times
Summer has arrived.
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:49 pm Well we wanted it and we waited months for it...so it is finally here. SUMMER...it was 60 degrees and rainy yesterday and today is near 90 and humid...and boy are we HOT. We all were out early this morning to get some things done before it got too hot to move...I moved some accidental sunflowers and I hope they will come back after they adjust to the move. They look very wilty right now but I am sure with some water and time they will come back...Logan helped me fill some of the tires with dirt and manure. Logan helped me plant some yellow boys, grape and big boys in the tires. I bought a few six plants of tomatoes since I am still waiting for my babies that I started to be big enough to go outside. I think a week in the hot box my husband built will do it. I also bought a tomato plant with tomatoes already on it so that I can harvest sooner and have toms all summer long. We planted that one in a large patio pot in the driveway. It was also time to mow the lawn. We didn't mow last week and it was getting quite long. It took 2 hours because I had to keep stopping to rest. When it got hot it got hard to move. My husband got the weed waker out and came behind me and cleaned up around the mint and the weeds. We walked around the yard a bit ago and found that one iris opened and I have posted pics. 
Full view of garden. 
Full view of flower garden. 
Drive way tomato plant. 
Mint Garden, has hosta and peonie. 
Butter cups..angels and others 
Well it is hot and I need to get the fans out and cool us off. I think we will need to be putting the AC in the window upstairs in our bedroom. Everyone have a great day! This blog entry has been viewed 452 times
My growing garden...June 4th
Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:17 pm Hello Everyone. Sorry I haven't Blogged in a few days. It has BEEN so busy the past few days. Logan had his first spring concert on Tuesday night. He is 4 and in preschool. He was so cute. A bit nervous but cute. On Wednesday Logan had his preschool certificate completion day. He is all done and ready for kindergarten in the fall. My mom and I went to his class and we had a picnic on the floor. We were supposed to have a picnic in a nice park but it rained. So we had a picnic inside his class instead. After lunch the weather cleared and we played outside chasing bubbles. This is Logan with his teacher, Miss Bean. 
So this morning I had time to walk through the veggie patch and the yard. The beans and the peas are coming up and so the chives have flowers. Here are a few pictures. 
The mint we planted 2 summers ago has left the yard and is growing wildly along the driveway. But it smells so nice. Time to make my hubby some REAL, English mint sauce. 
Here is a dalliha that is popping up. Just planted it 2 weeks ago. 
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