Northeast Gardening: Weather in your garden # 90, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Got a big chunk of my to-do list done before being too tired to continue after 2:00, so we went to the best nursery. It was closed, and then we went to another, it was closed too. Went to the farm, but they had only a few house plants and I was hunting for beach plum bushes. Frustrating. Island living.

We finished up cleaning up the south woods that is mostly cedar and scrub oaks. Then we moved a big pile of stones and did the preliminary work on some new stone stairs. We cut the hill side to accommodate them and laid them all out. Looks great, but i am going to leave the final work for DH as he likes doing stone paths and does it well. He comes back tomorrow from his skiing trip to VT. He got in 25 runs at Okemo so he was happy.

It was sunny and blustery today in the mid 30s. But we had a steady North wind of over 15 mph with some big gusts up around 40 mph. Tomorrow it is suppose to be warmer. Hope there is less wind. That takes its toll.

Here is a partial shot of some of the pruning that I have been doing with my helper pal from Brooklyn. There is more not in this shot. We will be adding lots more tomorrow, if my body can move. We will start to burn on Thurs if the wind lays down. Patti