General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...Part 18! :-D, 1 by MaryE

MaryE wrote:
Good morning. It looks like we are all busy playing in the dirt. Yesterday I started digging a new flower bed. Really it is part of another one where I put cardboard down a couple of years ago and anchored it with rocks. The grass under it died and then started regrowing through the holes in the cardboard. I am about half done with it, have some sod that was near the edges to shake the dirt out of, then need to take a few of wheelbarrows of soil out of it because it is too close to the wooden siding on the house, haul in some compost and hopefully it will be just right. I'll put that removed soil next to the gh where I am building another bed (well, not yet but it is on the list and I bought plants to go there already)! Dumb! Will I ever learn? Now I have to put them somewhere soon. The bed I am working on is for some dahlias I got last winter from a friend in a warmer climate. Some are sprouting and they need a home.

I took time from my gardening to go for a ride out in the hills yesterday afternoon when the clouds didn't look too serious, saw a couple of young badgers on a mound of dirt near their den, they were curious about the horse but disappeared down the hole when we got too close. I only scared up one deer that was bedded down in the sagebrush. Didn't see any rattlers but they are out of their dens, a neighbor saw one last week on a warm day when he was fixing a fence. I keep a close eye out for them because they could be anywhere, but probably right now would not be very active because it hasn't been very warm the past few days.

The lambs are finding ways out of their pasture now and I have to keep a close eye out for escapees that are likely to find something I planted and have dessert! They are little eating machines! I think they will get a new pasture today. I took a picture of an iris one of them was tasting when he stuck his head through the fence. See the bites on the leaves?

Off to dig now, see you later.

This message was edited Jun 9, 2005 8:51 AM