No major damage from the storm

Category: FRED - the garden | Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:30 pm

I have plans for today that do not include being out in the garden. I need to get some herb tea mixtures put together. And I absolutely have to go thru those two larges boxes of LP's Mom gave me a few months ago. There are some I want to put on CD for me, she doesn't want any of them recorded for her use and no one else in the family is interested in them...think I will do some research to see if ebay is a possibility for some of them.

I did go out to survey the plants after the heavy rain Friday and the high winds yesterday. It looks like a couple of limbs of the Fig tree have been damaged and will most likely have to come off. I should have trimmed off some at least a month ago, gotta get that done before they start getting heavy with figs.
The rain did splay out the Texas Betony and the Gaura, I need to put a stronger fencing around them to hold them up straight. The Paprika Yarrow is sorta smooshed down again this year, rain got it last year too. But this time it looks like it will stand up again since the stems were shorter this time than last time and it has buds forming.

I also put some seedlings out to begin the hardening off process, specifically the Pumpkins, Gourds and Morning Glories. With these storms lately (it appears there are more in our future, it is really nice to be having a normal spring even with the storms)....anyway, it is delaying when I feel safe putting seedlings out in the ground and that is something new for me.
I have to keep reminding myself that it is only mid- April and even tho summer will be another scorcher as usual, something keeps telling me to slow down and not to stress out about it this year.

Randy is teaching our son-in-law how to do some work on their mini-van today and is supposed to bring home the bricks Lisa is giving me. Maybe tomorrow I can get started on the wishing well. That nice big area I cleared out a couple of months ago is almost covered with weeds again.

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Gardenstew wrote on Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:44 pm:

>>> I have to keep reminding myself that it is only mid- April and even tho summer will be another scorcher as usual, something keeps telling me to slow down and not to stress out about it this year. <<<

I remember the heat drama last year Toni. It is easy to say "don't stress out" over it but one can be forgiven for it. So I say "don't stress out about stressing out" :)

toni wrote on Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:02 pm:

I think part of the change in attitude this year is the fact that we had a glorious autumn, a real winter and in the first 3 1/2 months this year our rainfall total is more than the first 6 months of 2006.
We always have 95+ temps for most of the summer and it will probably be exceptionally dry again, but that thought doesn't hurt like the last two years.

glendann wrote on Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:13 pm:

I"m sorry some of your plants got blown bad.My just looks a little wilted
I hope they come out ok .I have to get it all in the ground as I wont be here to check on them they just grow or not.
Good luck on your wishing well.Please take pictures of it.