What have you done today in the Garden?

All tucked up tight for the winter, huh Carolyn?

I potted up some amaryllis bulbs I bought from Van englen's. I'll be giving them as Christmas presents.

 

Harvested more sprouts today---they just keep giving, but it is getting close to the end now,
Fed the birds.

 

Like Sjoerd, we fed the wild birds and filled the watering stations. We cut the last of the broccoli, harvested the last of the lettuces, and picked a half-dozen bell peppers. We are to have a hard freeze tonight, so that is why I'm saying "the last of".
We will have a six-week hiatus in the gardens, and then start planting the cool weather crops.

 

That one is heated. It has stuff in it already but the space is for starting seeds and I can't give up that space for this stuff and then need to move it out of that house and into the basement in Feb. too cold. The entrance is outside the basement door. geraniums and pansies are started, geraniums for cuttings are in there, lavender for Spring,,,, a few other house plants etc.

 

We resurrected our bird feeding pole & feeder today. In the last few years, bears have become quite active in our town....last year our chief of police figured that we had maybe 3 or 4 resident bears ambling about. (Ours is a small town). We have to delay putting up our bird feeders until the bears have all gone into hibernation. Two years running, a bear bent our steel poll to the ground to get to the seeds! We have learned our lesson: wait wait and wait some more until the snows come before feeding the poor birds!

 

Gad Cayu--what a surprising thing to read...a bear!.
Glad I don't have those here.

 

Freezing! It was freezing outside, but I was inside freezing the broccoli and bell peppers we rescued before the cold front arrived and sent temperatures plummeting. No gardening today with temperatures in the 20's and a bit of a breeze.
We fed the wild birds and put fresh water for them (which promptly formed a skin of ice). I'm looking for a way to keep the water open for the wild birds without using a heat mat or heat band. An extension cord running from the patio to the flower bed just doesn't seem all that safe . . . .

 

Cleaned up flower beds today and repaired holes in the front fence. I had two rabbits on the lottie yesterday! I was so angry. I chased them around and around...and finally they just disappeared. I have no idea where they went, or how they got out of the garden. Well, they are gone now, that's all that matters.
It is really cold here with a moist air....Burrrrrr.
It's days like today that I wish I had a bathtub to soak those stiff muscles.

 

I looked at the snow covered garden and wanted to cry this morning before work. Does that count as doing something to the garden?

 

CJay, it counts only if the garden needed watering with your tears! I'm looking at our seasonal garden that needs to have the frost-bitten vegetable greenery removed, and the flowerbeds that still need trimming back and cleaning up.
This is a hard time of year for gardeners--those of us with work left to do are hoping for a break in the weather, and those who are in colder and snowier climes are waiting for spring.

 

Sjoerd, I have one I wish I could get to you. we remodeled the bathroom this year for K... he wanted a jacuzzi. I wish I could send to you. now I have no shower just a tub with a garden shower. grr!

been working in the greenhouse getting seeds in trays. geraniums are up and so are most of the pansies. planted petunias today.

 

Awwwww--Carolyn, you are an absolute angel. That would have been nice.

Look what I saw in the garden today--

Too bad the head wasn't on there.

 

We shoveled a path to the bird feeder and also a path to the compost bin. Now we are ready to be socked in with snow!