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Category: February Gardening | Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:38 am

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What a beautiful day it was today. Sun was shining this morning, then stayed cloudy an a slight breeze the rest of the afternoon. I finally got one of my wooden raised beds torn apart due to it rotting away. My FIL had given me a good many cider blocks so I lined them up around the wooden bed, then ripped it apart. I couldn't believe I had the perfect amount of soil. The new block bed is 10 blocks long by 5 blocks wide. I planted the herbs that were in that bed into the holes of the cider blocks. I had thyme, parsley, chives, lemon balm, curry an some leeks. I hope they will survive in them holes, if not I'll just have to move them. I still need to add some amendments to that soil, it has so much sand in it that it seems to repel water.

Then I tore out the frame I had going around the Hamlin Orange tree that had rotten badly an put the red bricks around it an the Prosperity rose. Those came from my FIL as well. I went 3 levels high on the tree just to get them organized an not scattered all over the yard. I will change that later on. I still have one more wooden bed I want to tear down, but I would kinda like to keep that as a raised bed. The grass hasn't taken it over so I know its still usable an not a lot of work like the others were.

Then I decided while I still had some energy left to rip out the Cross Vine I had growing on a post with latice. It had gotten so the runners were wanting to go every direction under the grass, so they couldn't be seen easily. I had debated on that one for a few years now, an just couldn't make up my mind.

We got a really good rain tonight, the storms that were coming from Texas an Louisana. Lost power for about 3 hrs, still raining. But I haven't heard of any tornadoes touching down yet.


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glendann wrote on Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:18 am:

trudy you real did do a lots of work today.I'm glad your weather didn't do any bad dammage .Alabama was tore up really bad by tornados.

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Droopy wrote on Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:16 am:

Well done Trudy! As my husband keeps telling me, just start in a corner, and before you know it, the work's done. Yes, well, I might try that approach this spring.

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sharon mc wrote on Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:13 am:

Keep at it mate! It's great hearing other's progress in their gardening. Here, we don't get tornados (hardly!) but yes, very strong gales sometimes, which unerve me of a night!

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Palm Tree wrote on Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:51 am:

You do work hard once you start working. Great stuff- well done trudy.

I my opinion it might cancel out the procastination.

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