Garden Projects #13

Northampton is an interesting town....supposed to be a great yarn shop there.....

I think so too.

I have a plan but it will have to wait a few days.
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Pretty amaryllis.....nice temps this week, Jo, your plan will start soon! I read my garden journal from last year....my reticulated iris & crocus were finished blooming, daffs, hyacinths, tulips all were budded........this year I can't even find the gardens!

I dont bother to check 2012 images when I want to know when early things bloom.It was a non-year as far as I am concerned.
I am impatient but probably Monday will be good if the weather holds and no rain.

After our foot of snow yesterday, there is some melt starting. It was 40° when I shut down the computer late last night. 36 at the present time. Garden is under there somewhere.

Our weather has been freezing for 2 months so there hasnt been much mabey.Maybe you will get the benefit of the 60* weather Sunday.Rain Monday should finish the snow pack.

The rain is scheduled here for Tues.....I'd love it if the snow goes, but I'm still talking feet in places!

Right. Although I can see the seat of a bench again.

Doesnt all thismelting and revealing make you feel something is coming to life?

Yes, but I'd like to see some blooms in the gardens.....

Patience will pay off.It always does.

I sowed some coreopsis seeds yesterday using my milk bottle cloche system.Fingers crossed it works.

Let me know...I'd like to get delph seeds outside if I can find some soil......

Just finished the cloches in the Lasagna garden and Daylily garden
Lasagna was like a rock but I think the cloche is anchored.
Pix #1 is DayLily garden nearly killed myself getting across the snow.Its the last day that I can do this.the next 2 weeks are cold and snow.
pix #2 Lasagna
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Hope those work well for you, Jo......it will be nice here until Thurs., then the cold is back.....My brother is heading for Pittsford for Easter, unless the weather is bad....he can take the train from Albany, am trying to persuade him!

I admire his endurance.
Its killing me to wait for the snow to melt .I tried to shovel a path from the deck steps tothe bare spot at the garden edge.Its icy under the snow so I stopped.
Sowing coreopsis like this is a new trick.I checked one of my cloches of poppies and they look dead.It will be final if they dont appear in May.

No! Where the snow has melted off the south side garden, I found nice green poppies, & verbascum....also a trillion weeds!

Township workers started trimming the 2 Purple Norway maples by the street(hubby hates them there, I can't understand why they planted them there in the first place) I went out to find out what they were doing,
they are going to be paving our road and using a mill machine so they couldn't have any overhanging branches, I told them they should just take them down, they said they couldn't do that
Then they moved down and started on huge maple that is on the other side of the sidewalk but it's so big that the branches reach into the road....doorbell rings, sorry, a branch hit your mailbox our boss is coming to look at it and will be replacing it....THANKS, I just bought a new mailbox cover and hadn't put it out yet, so it will go on a nice new mailbox :)

I walked down our road today....many mailboxes are down from the plows, glad mine is set back.....

Ours is one of the downed mailboxes. Seems there's always something needing attention.

DH has a rope attached to the mailbox so he can swing it in when the plows come. Melting & rain tonight is taking down the snow. A bit more coming Sat.?

My box is fine, but the white board fence has come apart where the neighbor plowed snow against it! Have to get it fixed & painted for my first project of the spring....

We have a plow damaged gate, but will probably take it down as it hasn't been used in awhile.

That's funny about the rope tied to the mailbox, maybe they should be mailboxes from traffic cone material so they bounce right back when hit

the mailbox swings out on an arm. it's quite cool. Dad came up with that yrs ago.

when we moved in here the mail post was iron with a large spring at the base. when it finally rusted apart i replaced it with a normal wooden post that the local Yout's smacked around with baseball bats along with the rest of the street a few years ago. now it is replaced with an aged granite post and a baseball bat proof mail box.

there are several in town with the swinging arm here - kind of like a gate swing - they are pretty cool and work well.

We have a gentleman who makes the swinging mail boxes in the next town over. :)

Now with the huge amounts of snow dumped on us, that makes sense.

Our old big box finally rusted out this is 'normal' size. The various boxes have been hit on purpose & attacked with a bat. It is posted the height of a windshield so they don't drive at it any more. That sort of thing seems to not be the way of life nowdays.

spent a couple hours under the deck this afternoon with the hammer-drill and chisel smoothing out the very hard/heavy rock i mentioned a while back. made some good progress although i am running out of chisel. this rock just eats them up. have about 1" of metal left and maybe 1 1/2" from the old one that i am now glad i did not throw out as it will be needed.

What will the rock become, Bill?

My birdbath.

When pigs fly. Patti

Really?

Nice try. But using photo shop is a violation for bird bath rules. Patti

victor you could not afford the shipping :)

I'm closer!

Here is a good article about impatiens and the downy mildrew that wiped mine out last year that I just read in one of my favorite garden blogs. I will be using only new guinea impatiens this year and more Periwinkle or Vinca, Catharanthus roseus which I love in lieu of impatiens. Patti

http://awaytogarden.com/impatiens-downy-mildew-forecast-too-soon-to-tell

Landscape guy came to look where new paths are to go.
Lasagna Garden

There might be another that willsolve a cut thru problem for me.
It will completely dissect one end of the gardens on the east side of the house.If the price is right I will have both done.