a FEW weeks? :) this weekend and man is there a lot of wood chips out there from the chain saw
Garden photos of '09.....#8
No, I was referring to the 'extra' gardening time you think you be getting.
right just a couple weeks
Hopefully it will be a short-lived extra!
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Peek - a - boo!
Sure sign of spring - pond scum.
yuck
100% organic.
organic yuck
Great in the tomato sauce.
That reminded me of the only thing I did not like in Japan - we called it 'Pond Scum soup' It was nasty!!!
I'm going to cheat because as hard as I stare at the spring bulbous patches: Nada, Squat, Zilch, Nil, Ne'er Do Wells, Layabouts, Slackers, etc. etc. As an honest person I'm declaring that I'm cheating in advance. Be ready. Have to do a little talk on 'Harvesting Seed in Your Garden' on Saturday and then Sunday is going to be Official Cheating Day. You will be AMAZED at the things I will find in my garden when I cheat. Nuff said. I have declared. I'm good. BTW no bonus' to rich crooks are being paid in this cheat.
Well, dahlia, then it's perfectly legal and morally acceptable.
I'm starting to think everyday is Cheating Day with all that's going on.
*Tsk* but we must retain the scallywags that got us into this mess....um....don't we?? Wait...is that supposed to make sense?
Including the pols who are so 'outraged'! Talk about pond scum!
Geeze, the talk of pond scum makes me happy to not have a pond. I have muddy clay puddles.... dose that count?
Jan, I agree about old foundation plantings being so interesting. There really weren't any "foundation" types of plants left here. At least nothing that was obvious after they pushed the dirt around for the house. I never saw the land until after the house had been there a year or two. However, I probably find some new perennial type of plant every year. You would think that I would've notice before, but do to the shade of the trees.... that were not as much shade in the 1940's, they didn't bloom. I did a major brush clearing/small tree thinning project 5 or 6 years ago and things have been popping up every since. I think that there would have been many more bulbs, but the gophers got to any that weren't tangled in tree roots. I did have a huge flowering quince bush that i've always known was there, unfortunately it was completely overrun with huge Japanese knotweed. I wasn't able to get rid of the knot weed without getting rid of the quince. I found the hyacinth about 3 years ago. Two years ago I found this 12' tall, scraggly, bush that I had never thought anything of because it was blending with the vine maples. Then suddenly this "vine maple" bloomed these giant double white Lilac blooms about two years ago. That was a fun find. I cleared the vine maples back in hopes that it might bloom again. I'm still trying to find a way to get water out to it on occasion during the summer, soley for the purpose that it might help it to bloom better later on. Then about 400 ft away, on what is then the neighbors property is a giant wisteria that grows about 60' up a fir tree! That is a strange site when that thing blooms since, from a distance, it looks as though the fir is blooming! unfortunately it's surrounded by a thick understory and poison oak as well, so it only blooms intermittently. there's a few of these really dwarf daffodils that I found trying to come up in the Ivy, so I've fought the battle with the Ivy around them to try to get them going strong. They're cute! they're only about 4" tall. The last thing that I found last year was this little sedum plant coming up under an old growth fir tree. I stuck it on the ID forum and nobody was able to come up with anything other than Sedum. It's near the lilac, but I think I'll have to move it if I'm ever going to see it bloom. I have also found old children toys, a couple of porcelin cups, broken plates, some really weird insulator, a 1920's heins mustard jar, an old shoe or two, cork top bottles, teeny creamer jar, cables, railroad spikes, etc, etc..... all anywhere from just below the ground surface to 2' below. Rototilling in the yard was a scary experience!!
Jo Ann, I sure hope that your soreness goes away soon!! But, your garden is looking great.
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Thanks Shelly
I'm going out now (barely light) to get some more done before it rains.
good luck!
That was a short trip. I ran out of paper again.
Now I'm on to magazines where I dont need to put plants. I'm straightening the border between me and the neighbor.
ge is the paper buried under mulch?
Yes, I am using Magazines on the border because I wont be trying to put plants there magazines take too long to decomp. so I use newspaper where I will plant end of April. This zine border is just to keep the neighbors grass at bay. He mowes along that side and I just want to give him a guide.
There was grass migrating into the edge.drove me nuts, his raspberries too, all I weed out of this garden are his tiny bushes.
This guy has been here the past few days. Any idea what it is??
Another.
Last.
That's a carolina wren.
That's what I was thinking, too, but couldn't see the tail well. I had my bird book on the wren page, but you beat me to it. :)
lol
You can tell the house and the carolina wren apart by the white "eyebrow". House wren doesn't have that distinct one.
There are chickadees and a mockingbird fighting over the bird house.
Spring is definatly here.
Thanks ladies! I don't recall seeing that one at my feeder before. Is it common?
Not sur on my side of the conversation but now that its migrating seson I look for unusual birds that just pass thru.
We even had Egrets one year. They were in a water area on the interstate ,blown here by a big storm.So sweet to see.
They don't migrate and their range is from southeast US to southern Ontario, west to Wisconsin and Michigan
The house wren migrates and are usually not seen unless it's breeding season.
I had one take up residence last summer in one of my bird houses...they are so tiny but they have a very loud song.
Yes, I googled and could hear the song. They like the suet.
Taken through my window a few minutes ago, looks like Mrs. lilac is waking up.
All my plants are she.
That figures.....
Have I ever mentioned Roxanne???