popular What have you done today in the Garden?

Sorry Anniekay I hope rain will be coming soon.

 

I was able to get some more of my hostas transplanted to the shady area today. And I transplanted my ostrich plume fern there also. I bought a new rosemary plant from a friend's garden the other day and I got that planted outdoors near my new asparagus bed. I mulched it with straw good, so I hope it will be fine.

The varmints have been trying to dig into the chicken coop again, so I sprinkled two jars of cayenne pepper where they have been digging. Maybe that will deter them? I wish I had some powdered ghost peppers, they are supposed to be the hottest peppers there are. My son checked that area this afternoon and did not think they could get through. I am having the chickens sleep in the rabbit crate for now, it is a heavy guage steel and more secure. They have plenty of straw in there, and double tarps over it and is inside their play area.

 

Annie, I know the feeling. Ya watch the weather and hope the rain will come only to see on radar that again the storm splits and goes around you. Or it shifts a little north and you watch as that area gets drenched while you stay completely dry. Sometimes I feel like there is a magnetic field over us that repels precipitation. But I trust Mother Nature has her reasons. Like Job we tuff out the hard times.

 

Ain't this ^^^ the truth.
I did get rain last night just before dark. Checked the rain gauge this morning and we got a whole inch !!

 

Nothing today it's been raining on and off.

 

Not planning on going outside today … too cold. Maybe if the sun peeks out. Not ready for the winter cold.

 

I ran around picking up all my tools, disconnected my hoses, covered the water spigot, and collected all my potted plants including two big heavy pots of Kimberly ferns and put them in my laundry room. The wind knocked down a bunch of branches so those are picked up too. I closed up all the vents to the crawl space under the house as well.

Since it's garbage day in the morning I put the trash by the road and I paid my electric bill and property taxes too. Of course they moved the office where you pay your property taxes to the opposite end of the building !! I told the girl :
"You people are as bad as Walmart for moving things
around !! " . She giggled.