This week, I’m pleased to share with your my one and only Tulip. Isn’t it pretty? I didn’t get any flowers from this plant last year, so I’m very pleased with it. In the back, you can see the poor Daffodils. They got knocked over by the wind we had this week. I guess I…
We managed to get a few garden chores done this week. I planted lettuce and spinach in the raised bed behind the house that I shared pictures of last week. Or maybe it was the week before…. We didn’t get anything planted in the main vegetable garden, but my husband worked on getting the potato…
This week, Monday morning started out looking like this: So much for working in the garden! The snow melted by Tuesday morning, but the rest of the week remained cold and damp. I was finally able to get outside for a little bit on Friday. I put compost in a raised bed behind the house…
I had wanted to plant my peas, lettuce, and spinach on Monday. However, it has been too cold to be in the garden. According the the weather man, we are supposed to get about 1 inch of snow tomorrow, and one to three inches on Monday. I’m so over winter. lol Since I wasn’t able…
I got brave this week and cleaned out the front bulb garden. I scrubbed thoroughly when I came in, so I’m hoping to avoid a bad case of poison ivy. Where the line is between the dark hill and the light hill in the back is the road. We let the wild roses and honeysuckle…
This week, I had my oldest son move the compost pile for me. We, ok HE, moved the compost from one side to the other so we could start a new pile. Here’s my compost pile made from pallets. I had him move what was left on the right hand side over to the left….
So last week I was all optimistic like, and shared pictures of the signs of spring in my yard. Well, apparently, I jumped the gun on spring. Because this is what my yard looked like this morning. Why, yes, those are snow covered daffodils. Don’t they look cold? I know I was cold when I…