What have you done today in the Garden?

I could not even find my garden under all the snow.

 

Nothing but cold and snow in my garden in New York. Have seed coming from Bakers Creek and PineTree. Also tryinga new place called NE Seed.

 

I like Bakers creek clay

 

I will check them out Cayuga thanx

 

The garden is buried.

 

We worked on replacing our wood chip paths and some cleaning up of the arches.

Odif— that snow looks lovely.

 

well, the greenhouse is finished except for gravel tamped and ground cover down. we got our load of greenhouse supplies and two pallets of soil mix to get in.

 

Nothing today, but took a photo

 

Jewell, those two foto’s are so nice. Are those primula’s in the first foto? Really? It will be awhile before our first ones appear. It gives me hope.

 

odif, that looks like the snow we got at Christmas time. .. You can have it I am not wanting it back...

 

@Sjoerd yes those are primulas, the only flowers this winter Usually have some heather and hellebores but maybe next month.

 

Spent a couple of hours in the garden, yesterday and today.
Finished pruning the rest of the wisterias and swept up all the bits I cut off. Then collected a lot of dead leaves from the borders. I drag them down to the front then fill big buckets with them.
Then I mowed both lawns. Not a lot of grass gets cut but the big fan behind the blade on my Flymo picks up a lot of debris. Then used my garden vac to blow the remaining leaves to the back of the borders to rot down. Looking quite tidy now.
I've still the "frog pond" to empty and re-fill. I'll pour the contents on the back of the borders, as it'll be a "stew" of fallen leaves, this will be slightly acidic which the azaleas and rhodos like.

All the roses are showing signs of growth.

 

Watered the plants and took some pictures. Pigeon peas flowering.

Red basil. Sowed the seeds two weeks ago.
Baxter early bush tomato. Eight weeks more or less. Can't say for sure.
Green bananas, of the dwarf variety. I cut these down two days ago. I will use some of these green ones to prepare a dish that uses them and I'll let the rest ripen. The pigeon peas are also of the dwarf variety.

This is as big as they get.

 

Our local grocery has the dwarf bananas-- both green and ripe. Please let us know on the Recipe Forum how you prepare the green ones. I'd love to introduce them into our diet!

 

The rain continues, I'm getting pools of water in two corners of the patio where it's supposed to run off. I suspect the drain holes I drilled at the bottom of the low curtilage walls are blocked. If it ever stops raining I'll poke a cane through them which should clear it as the water doesn't pool anywhere else in the garden. So no big deal.

Despite the rain I went out and fed the birds and the squirrel. I also walked down to the tea-house to check the lamps I keep in the bottom of my jukeboxes as heaters hadn't gone out. To my dismay, I saw some water dripping onto the floor. I thought; "That's all I need a leak in the 33 year-old roof!" Then I realised it was just the water dripping off the wide brim of my waterproof hat! The building is still as sound as a bell.